Presence: Experiencing God Each And Every Day

This episode focuses on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a nation which has many problems and also great natural and human resources. Much good can emerge there. In this COVID crisis the is hardship and uncertainty. Yet the potential for greater good is here as well. For education resources during this time visit my biog blog - www.edtechemergent.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I begin a new sub-podcast in the time of COVID-19. I will be quoting from "The Values Compass" recently authored by Dr Mandeep Rai. The first 'change' value in the book is pragmatisim as it is utilized in China. To grow The Common Good we must make hard choices today based on valid information and a prudent process of decision making. Learn more about this episode and The Common Good at www.edtechemergent.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

The concern about this continually growing pandemic intensifies hourly. And it is unfolding during the Lenten season of praying, fasting and giving. How can we do these in this time of crisis? And how can doing this bring back a commitment to vision of The Common Good at the heart of the great faith traditions? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I feel God's Presence last Friday as I led a meditation on a student retreat and later supported a student during a memorial service at a funeral home. At both places and times I saw balloons which represented God's Presence with us then and there. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I attend my school's production of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" and then watch the stunning Best Picture film "Parasite" (no spoilers.) Both examine class and how families and groups survive in the midst of economic injustice. Jesus loves all and yet is firmly "on the side of the poor" This is the core of the gospel and vital being a follower of Christ. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

When have you said "Yes" today? Have you said "Yes" to God in the last 24 hours? How valuable is your "Yes?" Do you ever feel that, like the element chromium, it is "too cheap to be taken seriously?" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

God has both masculine and feminine aspects as God encompasses all of what it means to be human. We see the Divine feminine particularly in Mary, Mother of God, who births Jesus the Christ. In the element Vanadium we have a metal which, like a mother's love is tough and gritty, while also bringing the shine and color to one of the most beautiful gemstones. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

Did you know that the coloring which makes a page of a book appear white is made of titanium dioxide? Indeed it is! Listen and learn more about how titanium is in many things around us even if we don't always realize this fact. Similarly, Christ is seen through all which is - if we have the ways to see and to identify God's Presence as Christ. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

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It's All Saints Day and my celebration of this holy day was framed by a special song - the late Ben E. King's "Stand By Me." It's a good song for this day as the saints are our extended family who are standing by us in deeply mysterious and significant ways. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

What do you see right now? Hear? Smell? Feel? Taste? And what do each of these sensations reveal to you about the Presence of Christ? Join me as I reflect about preparation to move my prayer materials and prayer time inside as the season changes. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I worship with a hospitable congregation and hear one of my girl students preach the sermon of the day. It's my 4th time worshiping here and I feel the welcoming Presence of Christ. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

The element scanduim is a component of the brightest light bulbs we see in parking lots and elsewhere. At the heart of all creation is Christ who became incarnate within creation and thus became a part of all matter from the subatomic to the cosmic. Like scanduim in the light we see, Christ is present in all we see - from quarks all the way up to stars and galaxies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

When we think of calcium and the human body bones and milk come to mind. But calcium is even more important at the cellular level and the regulation of important bodily functions. Christ is also found at the depths of everything vital for life as in Christ "we live and move and have our being." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

Potassium, atomic symbol K, is essential to the basic functioning of your body. It also was likely integral to the emergence of life on Earth. Christ, like K as it hits H2O, explodes into creation not by going up to the heavens, but by descending into humanity and the experience of being alive in flesh and bone. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

A Washington Post article today quoting words against racism from a Catholic archbishop and words from a Baptist reverend saying Donald Trump isn't racist illustrate the division in how Christians are responding to recent violent, hate filled shootings and "tweet-storms." This episode begins reflection on "Barmen Today: A Contemporary Contemplative Declaration." Find out more at EdTechEmergent.Wordpress.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

Argon, a noble gas is inert and inactive and thus is useful in various ways. Some think that God is inactive and uninvolved in the world. But Christ shows us that God is here and now. NEW - checkout EdTechEmergent.Word press.com for more info on this and other episodes. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I recorded this episode at the Dublin (Ohio) Irish Festival after celebrating mass with our Bishop Robert Brennan. My heart is heavy and I'm angry too after 20 were killed by an American terrorist in El Paso yesterday and 9 murdered early this morning in Dayton - 90 minutes from here. I talked with a Northern Irish author and am struck by how this form of domestic terrorism we are facing isn't too different than what he grew up with in Belfast. Any yet I am encouraged by the refrain from Bishop Brennan's homily - We are made for better than this. God is here and ready to empower us to support life by enacting common sense gun laws. We pray for those lost and also MUST work to end this violence. There are solutions if we but have the courage to stand up and enact them. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

Cholorine gas kills in a horrific way. Yet chlorine, in small amounts, purifies our drinking water is a useful disinfectant. Is God vengeful and destructive? Or is God - Love? Christ incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth firmly shows us who God is and how God is life-saving and live-giving. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support

I hike in a track of public land which isn't yet a designated park and I reflect on the ways that the trees and the entire woods is connected under the earth. Words from the new book "Underlands" come to mind as I experience Christ in this place and time. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/presence/support