Corey Jones Blog

Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever.  (The Message Bible) Unbusy: How to leverage the physics of flow to accomplish more of what truly matters and feel less busy at the same time by Andy Dragt This is a […]

Every day we wake up in the middle of something that is already going on, that has been already going on, that has been going for some time: genealogy and geology, history and culture, the cosmos-God.  We are neither accidental nor incidental to the story.  (The Message Bible) 2019 was the year of books!  It […]

It invites us to ask, "To what am I in bondage, and to what are we in bondage?" (The Message Bible) Let us break the bondage of trauma with trauma informed care. (me)  Earlier this week I attended a trauma informed care training for continuing education.  The whole point of the training is to introduce […]

It's true that moral guidance and counsel need to be given, but the way you say it and to whom you say it are as important as what you say.  (The Message Bible) I'm really struggling with writer's motivation; I have ideas, so it's not exactly writer's block, but I am struggling so hard with […]

Stay in your lane.  If you're good enough, people will move to you. ~ Russell Simmons I've always hated the phrase, "stay in your lane;" it always seemed condescending to me.  A few times someone has said it to me when I was asking a question and I felt very offended.  However, recently I realized […]

Religious laws speak of how to behave; theology and doctrine speak of how to understand and what to believe; but stories appeal to the imagination, to that place within us where our images of reality, life, and ourselves reside. (Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg) I look at my life as a […]

God is love.  When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us.  (The Message Bible) When I live in Love, all is well no matter how I feel. (me) "I'm too tired to take my medicine" is the familiar refrain in my head. It's […]

Newness is possible; the future does not have to replicate the past; the dream of God is alive. (Marcus Borg, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time) I'm going through a lot of change and that is good.  It is also stressful.  I started worrying that my increase in anxiety was a signal that […]

"Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am." (The Message Bible)  "Why don't they ever tell us that we can recover?  Why don't they ever tell that us that we can be well?  My doctor and therapist never told me that my […]

Friday, March 1  Saturday, March 2 Saturday, March 9 & Sunday, March 10 The mental health first aid workshop is free for members of Kirkwood United Church of Christ and $20 for non-members.