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Human beings . . . how often have we heard those two words without
a thought to what they mean? Oh, we could define "human," but what
about the word "being" or better yet, "Being." Vaclav Havel, Czech
writer, dissident, and finally, peaceful liberator of his country
searched for the true meaning of Being in his series of essays
written while in prison. Havel described Being as the state of
one's heart, the key to life and one's orientation to it. He
believed there are moments when we briefly glimpse these islands of
meaning: when we love, show compassion, look into another's eyes.
These thoughts on the nature of Being, the inherent right of human
beings to live freely, truthfully and in dignity came to Havel in
the solitude of his imprisonment. How often do we witness these
social and peaceful revolutions fermenting in the minds of those
imprisoned (Mandela, Gandhi, King, Solzhenitsyn) all for the
intrinsic right to be a human Being? Now it is John Chuchman's turn
to awaken us to the meaning of Being, our own peaceful revolution
within. This is John's seventeenth book. In all of them he travels
through moments of grief and joy with his poetry, companionship and
caring. "Being - Our Destiny" is an introspective understanding of
true self. It is a radiant source of wisdom and a link between our
Being and the Divine, through the redemptive power of Love. Follow
John's Quest for True Self and his discovery of God as
BEING-in-Love.
Divine Incarnation is not merely some historical event that
happened 2000 years. Incarnation and Creation are One in the Same
each and every Moment. As Creation Evolves so does Incarnation. As
we evolve, our notion of the Divine evolves.
The first letter of John, 4, 7-16, touched me deeply with the
words, God is Love; When we live in Love, we live in God and God in
us. The restrictive, biased, inadequate view of Our Creator as a
white-haired old man sitting in judgment of us simply no longer
worked for me. Indeed, it seems we have envisioned the Divine in
our own image. Perhaps a better idea of God is Source of Love,
Embodiment of Love, and Love in Action. God (as Verb) IS Love and I
AM only because (God as) LOVE IS. Join me here in exploring this
notion.
Human Experience is the very stuff of Spirituality; Don't try to
escape life's everyday experiences and don't worry about trying to
define Spiritually. Just live life to the fullest and be aware of
the guidance all around us. Awareness, Awareness, Awareness
One man's venture out from the apparent security of religious
boundaries in order to seek Spiritual nurturing and personal
growth. His experiences along the way--frustrations with
institutionalized religion and excitement in discovering life's
wonderful gifts--all expressed in free-form poetic style.
John Chuchman, Pastoral Bereavement Educator and Companion shares
his Grief and Caregiving workshop and seminar materials and
background information hoping to help anyone experiencing a loss in
life and anyone wishing to improve his/her basic caregiving skills.
Some humorous, yet sad aspects of institutional religion.
Human Experience; The Very Stuff of Spirituality The place you and
I stand every day of our lives is Holy Ground because God is
present. My present experience, where I am called to be Right Now
is Sacred. In the here and now, in this space and moment, I can
nurture a spirit of contemplation within myself and deepen my
awareness of God who speaks to me continually in the midst of my
daily life. Like you, I am invited to draw near to The Fire of
God's Mystery, to Love and Contemplate God's presence in the world,
and to remember I stand always and everywhere on Sacred Ground. The
Holy Spirit is always at work in you and me calling us into a deep,
prayerful Attentiveness to God's Presence within every moment, in
every person, I encounter, in all aspects of God's Creation. The
Spirit calls you and me to Silence, Sacred Space, Slowing, Seeing,
Sensing, and Savoring.
Expressions of frustration at the lack of accountability and
transparency on the part of church hierarchy. A sharing of feelings
that institutional church has lost sight of the original mission
seeking now only to protect the institution as it exists and the
hierarchy's control of it. Expressions of resentment of the
attempts to reverse the great work of Vatican II with hope that
church will become all it can be for people on life's journey. A
plea and hope that people take back their church.
In " . . . Journeying through Life . . ." John shares experiences,
observations, lessons, insights, and his personal growth and
transformation.
John Chuchman's book "I Love My Church, BUT, OH MY GOD" is about
religion, specifically the troubled contemporary religious culture
of the Roman Catholic Church, which includes within it elements of
deep spirituality and high institutionalism. Formulated in John's
characteristic free-line formatting, some selections read as
mystical poetry and others as direct confrontation - all contest
for institutional and hierarchical reform. In his inclusion of both
the political and the mystical, the prosaic and the poetic, John
provides a metaphor of the Church itself: often superficial and
foolish in the midst of complexity and depth; commonly
self-betraying yet self-confronting; always human yet relentlessly
pressing its way to God. Barbara M. DeGrand, M.A.
"This is a book of poetry in the truest sense: life experiences
recollected in tranquility and expressed in striking, creative
ways." Ernest E. Larkin, O. Carm. Kino Institute, Phoenix, Arizona
One man's journey up the Mountain of Life with many of the
Treasures discovered along the way.
A Collection of Wisdom encountered by the Author, John Chuchman, on
his path of Spiritual Growth. It is his hope that some of these may
be helpful to the readers on their life journeys. David armed
himself with a few small pebbles and used one to slay the giant
Goliath. Would that one of the Wisdom Pebbles contained in this
work can be used by you to slay whatever Goliath is blocking your
path to Spiritual Wholeness.
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