metaphors for life

The Turning Seasons of the Spirit

Sep 12, 2021

Aging and Staging, Beloved Community, Holidays and Holy Days, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Wellness

autumn, COVID-19, grief, Let Your Life Speak, living deliberately, loss, metaphors for life, Parker Palmer, spring, summer, winter

Metaphors are powerful. Entire cultures fall under their sway. They can put us to sleep, and even as we think we are spiritually and intellectually awake, we are snoring our lives away. It is said that the master metaphor of our culture is the American Dream fantasy of a permanent blue-sky season for busyness and…
Spiritual Alchemy

Aug 15, 2021

Beloved Community, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality

Bagyon, Billy Collins, Hokey Pokey, metaphors for life, negative capability, Paolo Coehlo, Rev. Bela Fekete, spiritual alchemy, spiritual balance, the art of living, Transylvania

How do we comprehend this thing we call life? How do we wrap our minds around it? Make peace with it, in our hearts? Sometimes, comedy provides the answer. Many of you may know the great comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and here’s something he once had to say on this topic. “Life,” he says,” is truly…