Erie Chapman
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Reflection – 2007
The last hours of the year provide an opportunity to reflect on the 364 days that have preceded this one. Continue reading
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Handel’s Passion – The Third Seed (continued)
Love appears when we disappear. Love finds her way into this world as we open the channel of our being by getting out of the way and opening our hearts to others. Continue reading
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Christmas Belief
he birth Christians celebrate on December 25 symbolized something of eternal and endless meaning. Love was born into the world in the form of a being who offers to us all we could ever ask or hope for. This is… Continue reading
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The Passion – The Heart of the Third Seed
As we rise this morning and the next to meet the day, we may consider, perhaps for the first time in a long time, an old and critical question: Are we living our lives with passion? If not, why not?… Continue reading
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The Second Seed- Awakening Potential in Others
One of our greatest abilities is to awaken potential in others. The ways we do that inform us about how to awaken potential in ourselves. Continue reading
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Potential -The Second Seed- Continued –
There is no more clear incarnation of potential in this world than a new born baby. All of life opens before my granddaughter just as it did for each of us at our births. Continue reading
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The Second Seed of Loving Care – Potential
Because 19 year-old Robert Hawkins couldn’t find a loving purpose in his life, he ended his life, and the lives of eight other innocent people in a murderous rampage through an Omaha mall. “Just think, I’m gonna be famous,” he… Continue reading
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God As Love
The last three words in the Apostle John’s first letter, “God is love,” are, to my mind, among the most important in all of the Bible. John tells us “who” God is. He doesn’t describe God as male or female,… Continue reading
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Halloween & Reformation Day
The anniversary I now like to honor on this date is Reformation Day, which began October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral calling for reforms and an end to abuses in… Continue reading
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Love Within
So much of our lives seems to be governed by things from without that we may forget that Love is a force that grows from within each of us. Much is made of life battles between the forces of good… Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 