6th Sunday in extra-ordinary time. Our question: What is an inner stumbling block that gets in the way of making the life-giving choice.?

Since we won't be making another Ash Wednesday episode, we invite you to listen to last years episode (scroll down to episode 3)

Laura again recommends Michael Meades, The Living Myth, podcast⁠, especially this episode on creative practices. ⁠

We talk about the mysteries of our life and the mystery genre as a way to explore this. Laura recommends the movie ⁠"Knives⁠

⁠Out, Wake up Dead Man."⁠

We talk about metaphor and Joseph Campbell. "Metaphors carry us from one place to another, they enable us to cross boundaries that would otherwise be closed to us. Spiritual truths that transcend time and space can only be borne in metaphorical vessels whose meaning is found in their connotations—that is, in the cloud of witnesses to the many sides of truth that they spontaneously evoke—not in their denotations, the hard, factual, uni-dimensional casings of their historical reference."

Eugene Kennedy, Ph.D.

Campbell, Joseph. Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

[A]s Jung put it in terms that chill me always, “What is denied inwardly will come to us in the outer world, and we call it fate.”~ James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times.

A very challenging gospel reading!

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