pat loughery

I’ve just finished reading “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield“. For the past several months I’ve been unemployed – laid off at the end of a project, and unable to pick up new work. It’s frustrating, worrisome and not…

My web-friend Brad Culver wrote a beautiful liturgy for Celtic Advent last year. Celtic Advent runs a full 40 days, just like Easter Advent – from Nov 15 through Dec 24, as do the Orthodox churches. May this advent season be a time of prayerful anticipation for you, as you…

I’ve been revisiting some vows that I wrote and took with several people in our community several years ago. I’m starting to think they may form the contour of a new rule of life/ curriculum for transformation. Here they are (slightly altered and with some more edits needed…) Simplicity, the…

“Film is a record of the ever-changing face of God. This moment is holy, but we walk around like it’s not holy. We walk around like there are some holy moments and there are all the other moments that are not holy. [But they are] and film can let us…

via potomac9499.wordpress.com I found this one online and traced it back to a source (though not the original, it appears). All in good fun, y’all 🙂

I am deeply impacted by the story of One Day’s Wages, a newly launched nonprofit organization which is dedicated to providing simple ways of fighting extreme global poverty. ODW is the child of Eugene Cho, a young pastor who I greatly admire, and the story of Eugene’s vision and commitment…

Categories: Politics By Steve Breen, San Diego Tribune, October 18, 2009 via blog.beliefnet.com

Like a wooden spinning top with its main mass lopsidedly near the edge, I have wobbled erratically, weaving an uncertain inconsistent and unstable course through life so far.  I have lived inauthentically off-centre away from the core of my being, not constantly tapping into the well of my being. I…