Ordinary Life Archived Talks
“Thinking With Our Hearts”
Ordinary Life Talk for
September 21, 2025
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Dear Ones -
It is based on one of the most powerful and provocative of parables told about Jesus by his early followers. It is the story of four people who took a man for healing to a place where Jesus was. Not able to get through to Jesus because of the crowd, they took the man up to the roof, opened a hole in the roof and let the man down. No one was upset by any of this except the “religious elites.” In the story Jesus could sense what they were thinking and asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts?”
The story is so applicable to our time and culture. Not only are we not thinking clearly with our minds, we seem - at the leadership level - not to be using our hearts at all. Those of us who see to walk the “Wayless Way” can offer a different model.
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“Walking on Water”
Ordinary Life Talk for
September 14, 2025
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Dear Ones -
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The title I gave the teaching I offered in Ordinary Life this week is
Walking on Water
This was a continuation of what I began last week of our being in a “Calvary Moment” in our country and globally. Our situation is hopeless and there is a solution. The solution is to do the work of recovery which, paradoxically, is both work and a gift. People in recovery frequently say that it is a miracle that they survived their addiction. So, too, for us collectively. Because we are living at a level where we do not have the emotional intelligence skills to live. Augustine says, “God is always trying to give good things to us but our hands are too full to receive them.”
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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“Breathing Underwater”
Ordinary Life Talk for September 7, 2025
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The title I gave the teaching I offered in Ordinary Life this week is
Breathing Under Water
In our current culture we seek to survive in an environment that seems impossible for human flourishing. The way we learn to breathe under water is by transcending religion and reclaiming spirituality. To do this we need to know about and willingly participate in the process of deconstruction and confront the reality that ours is an addicted society.
That’s a brief summary. The audio/video versions of the talk has some significant differences from the text from which I spoke. You can find a link to the text of the talk by clicking here.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley