Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 4: Samuel
It’s a popular Zen saying: Wherever you go, there you are. Simple, right? Omaha is home to one Zen Buddhist temple, affiliated with the Soto school and situated in an old house not far from Bemis Park in North Omaha. Meditation sessions are scheduled every day...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 4: Samuel
Scott Griessel:::Poducer:::Writer:::Director:::Photographer Let me be the first to assure you that you have it all wrong. You’re ideas about God, Jesus, Spirit, whatever are bunk. Your passionate beliefs are misplaced. You...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 4: Samuel
2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Twice I have had the privilege of dining in a Bedouin tent in a Middle Eastern desert. For one meal it is an adventure and an experience. Beyond that … The tent is patched animal skins. The constant unrelenting winds have torn holes and...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 4: Samuel
The improvising musician realizes the need for waiting is necessary to the creative process. The question is, what are we waiting for? Is it inspiration? For me, the problem seems to lie with the simple fact that each and every time I sit at the piano I find myself...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 4: Samuel
As we have already seen, Advent turns time on its head; Advent heaves ordinary expectations upside down. We begin Advent with an anticipation of the end and end Advent with an expectation of fresh beginnings. The First Sunday of Advent follows hard on the heels of...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 4: Samuel
We all know how we would like to hear the news. For many of us, it would be in a comfortable recliner in our den, with just the right beverage in our hand. If the sharp and surprising word must come, O God, let it be as palatable and packaged as possible. But we get...
