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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 4d

“Our hearts are restless until they rest in thee,” wrote Augustine about the divine.
“Which one?” I thought this morning.
I live in a time and place where Jesus has become Mars

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 5d

FREE OPPORTUNITY!
Check out Spirituality for Times Like this at no charge on Monday November 3 on Zoom from 7-830 pm Central.
Message me to join. Peace

Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 11d

Spirituality for Times Like This arose as my response to 3 events in my life.
~A Dark Night of the Soul beginning in 2018.
~Drawing out my trans identity after 54 years.
~Wondering what to do amidst increasing darkness and cruelty in my country last winter.
Starts Monday November 3. Please join🕊️

Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 5d

Seems like a good day for these words. Peace

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s all you need to know.

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 6d

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 8d

I finally read Kazantzakis’ novel a year ago. Fascinating the back stories he crafted as well as the aura of mystery. And yes, a co-worker told me I was going to hell for seeing it in the theater when it came out.

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 8d

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 9d

If you’re overwhelmed as I am, please consider this reading group. Growing awareness of soul and spirit in community buffers the evil of inhumanity in ourselves and others. Peace

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 9d

“The cruelty is the point” is something I hear often describing our times. Still, inhumanity violates divine spirit and soul, collectively and individually. Nothing will improve or become great.

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 10d

Sing it, sister! Stupid shit.

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 10d

Responsibility is on every individual to safeguard their relationship to evil.

Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 11d

Spirituality for Times Like This arose as my response to 3 events in my life.
~A Dark Night of the Soul beginning in 2018.
~Drawing out my trans identity after 54 years.
~Wondering what to do amidst increasing darkness and cruelty in my country last winter.
Starts Monday November 3. Please join🕊️

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 11d

We recognize beauty when we’re in touch with our humanity. According to some theologians, divine beauty is the complex harmony of diverse adaption. Beauty isn’t homogeneity and is the opposite of chaos. Please consider joining me to shape these times from the inside out.

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 12d

Clarissa Pinkola Estés shared Explaining Evil in 2002 in the aftermath of 9/11. Here we are and so it goes.
Her evergreen words guide us now.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 13d

Recommend highly - for anyone seeking spiritual accompaniment and especially for transfolks sorting out a complicated relationship to spirit:

Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 24d

Personal spiritual awareness has an impact on ourselves and the outer world. In our trying times such capacities are on the side of life.
Please join me for Spirituality for Times Like This. Begins Nov 3 at 7 pm Central on Zoom and continues on Monday evenings for 6 sessions. Peace

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 13d

The lengths we used to go to find something we heard.

Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 13d

Saw it yesterday. I liked it but I get the criticism of it. Even as Bruce has shared details of his mental health he and Jon Landau carefully control his story. Someday a biopic that goes beneath the surface could be made. Or not. But, “In this office, my office, we believe in Bruce Springsteen.”

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 13d

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 14d

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · 24d

Personal spiritual awareness has an impact on ourselves and the outer world. In our trying times such capacities are on the side of life.
Please join me for Spirituality for Times Like This. Begins Nov 3 at 7 pm Central on Zoom and continues on Monday evenings for 6 sessions. Peace

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · Sep 23

That class and this book freed and birthed my spiritual and religious imagination. Grateful, still.

Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · Sep 23

Kermode writes, "The pleasures of interpretation are henceforth linked to loss and disappointment, so that most of us will find the task too hard, or simply repugnant; and then, abandoning meaning, we slip back into the old comfortable fictions of transparency, the single sense, the truth."

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Wendy Vie @revwendyvie.bsky.social · Sep 23

I retrieved boxes of my books from the attic above my garage and re-read this one for the first time since Truth and Meaning class in seminary with Dr. Don Juel in the winter of 1993.
I remember Juel said, "I find Kermode damn irritating because he's so right."

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · Sep 4

Reading Liberation Psychology will start a new book on November 15th. New members welcome

We meet 1x monthly, 3rd Saturdays

We'll be reading "We've Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse" by James Hillman

Reading Liberation Psychology — What A Shrink Thinks

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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