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The Basics of Being Human

REFLECTING LIGHT

Release Date: 11/04/2023

Gently Now show art Gently Now

REFLECTING LIGHT

GENTLY.... VENUS RETROGRADE IN SCORPIO Is not messing around. Dark underbelly of the past. Mercuy will join her later on in the month, SO be advised—love, relationships, etc, hold tight. I have a self imposed gag order. Don’t cut the bangs, make major purposes etc. if you can help it. WAIT until Nov 14th. I appreciate this astrologer. She offers amazing insights and encouragement for spiritual growth via astrological understanding. Moose symbol  Its patience is physical rather than decorative. A moose may spend hours feeding, taking what the season offers, then standing motionless...

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REFLECTING LIGHT

For information about the new fall class/discussion group exploring spiritual themes in Homer's Odyssey, please visit: mandybgreen.com Matthew 20 Alma 30:8-9: For thus saith the scripture: ye this day, whom ye will serve. Now if a man desired to serve God, it was his privilege; or rather, if he believed in God it was his privilege to serve him; but if he did not believe in him there was no law to punish him.

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Photo Courtesy of Utah Museum of Natural History For the Odyssey Book Club Lecture Series visit: Mandybgreen.com To learn more about Books and Bridges: The Eclective Substack: Notes from Lev Tolstoy's "A CONFESSION." https://amzn.to/4gRvLcf

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WELCOME TO SEASON 5! GOD UNBRIDLED. show art WELCOME TO SEASON 5! GOD UNBRIDLED.

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Image credit: Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, Fresco, Sistine Chapel.  Welcome back after our long hiatus! Season 5 begins with a discussion of our Ineffable, Unbridled God.  For more information about Project Illumination's new Book Club: Diving Deeper into Homer's Odyssey, please click the following correspoding link: TIER ONE: Tier TWO Tier THREE For Show Notes please visit: mandybgreen.com/podcast    

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SABBATH: IN THIS SMALL AND SIMPLE THING SALVATION LIES: COME FOLLOW ME: Terrence C Smith’s commentary: Noah fashioned the ark exactly as he was instructed to do. The Lord was very specific in His instructions to Noah. It was to be made of certain specified materials. It was to be of a certain height, length, and breadth—300 cubits in length, 50 cubits in width and 30 cubits in height (which is about 137 × 22.9 × 13.7 m. or 450 × 75 × 45 ft. – about 11⁄2 football fields long, 4 stories high). After God had told Noah what to do (v. 14-16), then God told Noah what He would be doing at...

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Thoughts taken from John Mark Comer's book, "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry." “Little moments throughout our day wake us up to the reality of God all around us.” Pg. 121 Today by Mary Oliver   Today I'm flying low and I'm not saying a word. I'm letting all of the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must, the bees in the garden rumbling a little, the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. And so forth.   But I'm taking the day off. Quiet as a feather.   I hardly move though really I'm traveling a terrific distance. Stillness. One of the doors into the...

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Art: Flaming June, by Fredrick Leighton Welcome to Season 5 and the invitation to rest, pause and center.  For a link to the book "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry", please visit:  Sounding the Seasons Tangled in time, we go by hints and guesses,  Turning the wheel of each returning year. But in the midst of failures and successes We sometimes glimpse the love that casts out fear.  Sometimes the heart remembers its own reasons  And beats a Sanctus as we sing our story, Tracing the threads of grace, sounding the seasons  That lead at last through time to...

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Welcome to a preview of the year's coming events, and Forbidden Adventure's "Exploring Ancient England."  To purchase "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry," click here: For more information about the tour or to sign up for it, click here: Jerusalem ["And did those feet in ancient time"] BY  And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen!   And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?   Bring me my...

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Art by Wendy Keller "For Unto Us A Child is Born" Winter Solstice Night—PODCAST 2:   One of four cardinal points where the earths elliptical  celestial paths  align. Thinking of you. Holidays, while wonderful, may not always elicit triumphant and joyful tidings. Loss and grief seem to weigh in more heavily during the season. I know we’ve felt it with the loss of our nephew from suicide a year ago, the recent death of my uncle and aunt just 9 days apart, dear friends who experience the loss of a spouse, or child, others I love going through divorce, miscarriages, children...

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Gods answer is a baby. Artwork: Tshikamba, Nativity Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,     neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth,     so are my ways higher than your ways     and my thoughts than your thoughts. TOUR INFORMATION!~ Unlocking Ancient England with Mandy Green March 13-27, 2026 With special Guests: Margaret Barker Tom Bree & Guy Olgilvy $4,800 USD price per person Double Occupancy $5,900 USD price per person Single Occupancy   For Beginning Biblical...

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“And the word became flesh and came and tabernacled among us.”
John 1:14: (my translation).
 
[Christ] “Determined to be God with us, refusing to be God without us. Jesus Christ is God refusing to be God alone.”
“Christ teaches us how to be human."
“Jesus refusing to be God without the thoroughly human YOU!”
 
Will Willamon, from the video clip: "Jesus Entering the World as Response to Suffering and Sin," Duke Divinity School.
 
A Blessing for Presence by John O’Donohue
May you awaken to the mystery of being here
And enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift
And find the courage to follow its path.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift, Woven around the heart of wonder.
 
O’Donohue, J., (1998). Eternal Echoes. Exploring our hunger to belong. London, BantamBooks. p.139
“Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.”
Barbara Brown Taylor