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Category: How

Thrilled by the prospect of Freshness

August 21, 2022 peterdudeney Leave a comment

Watching, from a distance, the bravery of people fighting for the freedom of their country and knowing the odds are…

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Wonder, admiration, gratitude

January 9, 2022 peterdudeney Leave a comment

Maybe in human history there have been episodes of relative political peace, but what we know from our own experience…

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-scapes and -sheds

September 19, 2021 peterdudeney Leave a comment

Woke up this morning feeling dissatisfied with myself, so I started to pray—to freshness, my friend. But as I said,…

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Omnivorous

September 7, 2021 peterdudeney Leave a comment

Livingness, the appetite for encounter with others and othernesses, is omnivorous, catholic, eclectic, non-exclusionary, open to the local and familiar,…

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Fresh future forever

July 28, 2021 peterdudeney Leave a comment

The question: how do our encounters have fresh-future-forever? If we are ‘generously invited’ to share freshness’ eternal livingness’, how do…

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Prayer and freshness, part 1

July 27, 2021 peterdudeney Leave a comment

Can we have private, personal encounter just with freshness? Does it have the power to comfort and encourage, to inform…

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Excursions

July 15, 2021 peterdudeney Leave a comment

If we want encounters, sometimes we have to plan excursions, that is, initiate deliberate journeys to find others and othernesses…

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Waking up

June 8, 2021 peterdudeney Leave a comment

Each day we can meet freshness afresh. We may be tightly scheduled or at loose ends; blithe with anticipation or…

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Gifts of livingness

May 20, 2021 peterdudeney Leave a comment

Go to the river to find the nuggets; follow the nuggets to the lode. I have to recognize that, though…

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Not othering, encountering

April 12, 2021 peterdudeney Leave a comment

Let’s be clear. Encountering is making common cause with the livingness of an other addressed as ‘you’. It is not…

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Getting started

Meeting freshness:

Invite an other or accept invitation by an other to encounter, then, in reflection, ask: Did I meet freshness? What was it like? For more, see here.

Opening to freshness:

Find a fellow encounterer to share stories, then consider your encountering practice, then, in reflection, ask: Have we become more open to freshness? What has it been like? For more, see here.

Celebrating freshness:

Gather with other encounterers to extol freshness and encourage one another in encountering, then, in reflection, ask: Do I celebrate freshness? What is it like?  How does freshness matter to me? For more, see here.

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