Mennomystic

  "The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground," - U2 Beautiful Day   "The most unfortunate thing about the concept of mysticism is that the word itself has become  mystified —relegated to a “misty” and distant realm that implies it is only available to a very few. For me, the word “mysticism” simply means  experiential knowledge of spiritual things , in contrast to book knowledge, secondhand knowledge, or even church knowledge."                                                                                                 - Richard Rohr   Rohr goes on to say that those of us who have been "churche...

  This is the way things always have been. It’s always been David and Goliath. The least likely, dirty, smelly, sheep herding child against the sure-to-win, powerful giant. This has always been the way. And it’s not about the victory; it’s about the struggle. Victory is fleeting. Struggle endures. I’ve been reading the murder mystery book series by Kate Wilhelm written between the 1990s into the 2010s. The protagonist, Barbara Holloway , is a criminal lawyer disillusioned with the justice system that is so easily manipulated by greedy, self-interested, powerful, wealthy, elites. She literally takes the law into her hands to advocate for the innocent, the outcast, and the vulnerable. Just like history is often written by the victors, laws were written by those in power to favour them and maintain the status quo that maintained their hegemony . It’s a conspiracy that hides in plain sight through authority, legitimizing atrocities with impunity. Barbara agonizes over her own man...

  I sit here in exhausted resistance. Not having been able to write for the past month, I wonder if I can at all. The ideas, thoughts, and perceptions are all there, but feel cloaked by a heavy wool blanket of torpor, doubt and fear. Writing is soooo much work. It's hard and time consuming. And for what? Hasn’t it all been said before? There’s nothing new under the sun. Does my voice really matter? Am I just adding to the clamor? I keep thinking that people will know the things that I know but I also know they don’t. But I feel like, they should. Just go look! Seek and you will find. Be curious about the world around you. Ponder deeply. Find credible, thoughtful, humble, optimistic, creative, and out of the box thinkers and read or listen to them. That’s what I do. My friends tell me that a lot of people don’t do that. Can’t I just show them where to look? Sure, but no one else experiences life, and reads, and listens, and processes, and writes in exactly the same way that I can. A...