There Are No Dark Emotions...

In Learning to Walk in the Dark, Barbara Brown Taylor quotes Miriam Greenspan, "There are no dark emotions, just unskillful ways of coping with emotions we cannot bear. The emotions themselves are conduits of pure energy that want something from us: to wake us up, to tell us something we need to know, to break the ice around our hearts, to move us to act."
Later Taylor adds, "...I learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that."

I wonder  what was going on in Peter's mind and heart when Jesus told him what was happening...

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’

 He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.

Mark 8:31-35

We'll meet for Stone Soup at the Wesley Cottage at Saluda United Methodist Church at 5 p.m. 3/1/15

We'll have real Stone Soup for dinner. Rob will provide a tomato soup base. You bring what you want to put in it (vegetables, beans etc) or what you want to go with it (bread, salad, a roasted pig etc)

Bring a bandana or something you can use to blindfold yourself for our work on Learning How to Walk in the Dark!