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july 2017 an aging liberal hippy from the left coast skip to primary content skip to secondary content an aging liberal hippy from the left coast on the banks of the columbia river search main menu home about monthly archives july 2017 spiritual discipline for the week disorder sunday posted on july 30 2017 by abbiewatters reply today in church pastor sarah challenged us to practice the spiritual discipline of disorder this week jesus insisted that every person was a beloved child of god he disrupted the status quo i like to have things orderly i m uncomfortable with the holy spirit blowing through the world creating disorder we all find ways to be hateful to people who are different from us it can be disruptive when we decide to love instead of hate when the spirit blows it changes our lives when jesus disorder sounds like a relief then things begin to change we forgive other people and we forgive ourselves come holy spirit 1 try to remember that each person you encounter this week is a child of god holy and beloved it s hard to remember this for people who a basically unlovable but i m called to do it 2 notice this week when you re inclined to judge try leaning into curiosity instead ask why ask what if wonder about the other person s pain 3 do one thing every day this week that makes you uncomfortable as an introvert socializing with other people always makes me uncomfortable particularly if i have to do it too long but today i offered to take a little boy about 2 years old for a walk during lunch because his parents were obviously stressed and he was obviously bored i usually shy away from inserting myself into situations like that but he enjoyed walking to the end of the pier and looking at the water and the boats and the jellyfish and the other fish who knows what kind of mischief i ll get into the rest of the week posted in bethany courage honesty leave a reply 2017 intentions june posted on july 6 2017 by abbiewatters reply as i said here i dumped my original star word in favor of courage these are my intentions for the year let s see how i m doing showing courage in each case i will resist hatred prejudice and evil and speak out against all of them when i see hear them i will resist evil hatred and reactionary government by signing up with wall of us each week you will receive a list of four actions you can take by writing to your elected representatives to ensure your values are being considered by the government some are local some are state and some are national often you will receive suggestions of products to boycott or hatred to call out i ve consistently made phone calls either in support of my representatives positions or to encourage them to speak out i have both us senators and my representative s number saved in my phone and i call at least weekly i m still calling right now i m focusing on lgbt rights global warming and immigrant rights i ve signed up with people power a grassroots organizing effort backed by the aclu i m on the local leadership team for people power in tacoma i have attended a city council meeting where they were discussing eliminating fossil fuels from our port i ve added my neighborhood council meeting to my calendar and will try to attend i attended a washington won t discriminate training and will be working to bring trans 101 training to groups i can influence i also signed this letter as vice moderator of olympia presbytery i visited gog li hi te wetlands at the port of tacoma and learned about reclamation efforts in the area birds and wildlife are thriving there this is the site of an old town dump in the tide flats and it is amazing that area was reclaimed only 5 years ago i will exercise regularly and eat good healthy food i will try to get 10 000 steps a day so far so good for the most part i will log my food every day and no cheating i have lost the weight i put on since the first of last may that includes the weight i gained while traveling to see the alabama watters and at general assembly next milestone will be when i get back to where i was when we returned from our big 50th anniversary trip in november 2015 i will cook most of the food we eat from scratch and will be careful of extra salt and additives in any packaged foods check check and check i ve also planted green beans and squash and the green beans have sprouted i have planted the tomato and pepper plants that s the first bloom on the tomatoes i will continue to get blue apron meals whenever my schedule allows me time to prepare them if you would like to try them send me your email in a comment and i ll send you three free meals i have at least 5 sets available i will make personal contact with at least half of the churches in the presbytery i will meet the pastors for coffee and a get to know you time so far i ve only connected at presbytery meetings and events i continue to attend leadership council and administrative council meetings trustee meetings taskforce for new worshipping communities meetings and meetings of the granting team for distributing mission money to various churches i will try to meet with the sessions and invite more participation by ruling elders in presbytery meetings and commissions and committees i m working on getting some money from the leadership council to subscribe to mission insight for the taskforce on new worshipping communities we need demographic data to explore potential new church plants in underserved areas of the presbytery i will work for more racial diversity and harmony in my city and church i will encourage a dialogue between bethany and at least one historically black congregation no opportunities yet but i m working on it our interfaith dialogue has continued through may i have attended all four sessions one at bethany presbyterian church one at temple beth el one at st mark s lutheran church and one hosted by the mosque at the library we have studied how each religion thinks about abraham moses jesus and mohamed in july we will meet with all the other faith communities for a picnic and also for a women s tea i m serving on the steering committee for the next interfaith women s conference sponsored by associated ministries i will pray for big al as he faces decreased mobility and increasing pain from his back problems i will try to remember that he is hurting and not push him to do more than he is comfortable doing i m doing pretty well with this one but it means i often go places and do things that leave him at home alone al felt well enough to visit the tall ships festival with me and we enjoyed a day in the sun at the waterway in tacoma we also got to see some of the museum of glass that is located right by the harbor posted in bethany courage diet family flora and fauna one word politics racial justice sightseeing tagged ecology gardening gog li hi te wetlands museum of glass olympia presbytery leave a reply spiritual discipline for the week love posted on july 2 2017 by abbiewatters reply today in church pastor sarah challenged us to practice the spiritual discipline of love this week we began with a passage from the song of songs 2 8 13 listen it s my lover here he comes now leaping upon the mountains bounding over the hills my lover is like a gazelle or a young stag here he stands now outside our wall peering through the windows peeking through the lattices my lover spoke and said to me rise up my dearest my fairest and go here the winter is past the rains have come and gone blossoms have appeared in the land the season of singing has arrived and the sound of the turtledove is heard in our land the green fruit is on the fig tree and the grapevines in bloom are fragrant rise up my dearest my fairest and go for many centuries the song of songs was one of the most read and studied books of the bible and then a puritanical streak appeared in christianity and it fell out of favor it is a series of erotic love poems and never mentions god but scholars and religious people studied it as a metaphor for god s love for humanity and hopefully humanity s love for god and each other what if we looked at the world and every person in it with the passionate eyes we use to look at our lover how different would the world be then 1 say i love you to someone very day this week this will be really hard for me my mother and father were very private and rarely said i love you so consequently i never developed the habit i m pleased to see that my children have both learned to say it regularly to their spouses i think they learned it from them 2 do one thing this week to express your love for someone in a physical tangible way this is right in my wheelhouse i always resonated with the duet between tevya and golde in fiddler on the roof i don t know whether big al understands that when i cook and wash clothes and try not to nag him i m expressing my love for him but i am i have always believed that love isn t a noun it s a verb you can act love without feeling it but if you practice it consistently it will become a feeling 3 take time each day to look at your partner and see god in them i see god in the way big al listens to me and supports me as i flit around doing good his love is my underpinning and i rely on it as i rely on god s love posted in bethany honesty tagged love spiritual disciplines leave a reply abbie watters search july 2017 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 jun aug archives august 2026 17 july 2026 31 june 2026 31 may 2026 32 april 2026 31 march 2026 32 february 2026 29 january 2026 32 december 2025 31 november 2025 31 october 2025 32 september 2025 31 august 2025 31 july 2025 32 june 2025 31 may 2025 32 april 2025 31 march 2025 32 february 2025 30 january 2025 33 december 2024 32 november 2024 31 october 2024 32 september 2024 29 august 2024 32 july 2024 32 june 2024 31 may 2024 32 april 2024 31 march 2024 64 february 2024 59 january 2024 64 december 2023 56 november 2023 60 october 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