Patrik Olterman Rodhe's Blog, page 9

Tree of life

The divine light filters down from the stars,
into the fertile ground of our souls,
seeding our innermost beings with love.
The seeds that are growing, that has always been growing that will always grow
forms the tree of life ripe with precious fruit.
As we reach up for the branches to the succulent fruits we know
that the light, the soul, the seed, the tree, the fruit is love.

Sacred sexuality

I am getting some carefully worded questions on email and Facebook about this new direction we are moving in. Especially after the announcement that we are teaching at the Sacred Sexuality conference in Jerusalem.

Any reader of this blog will know that I not only think that sexuality is an important part of being human but that I also think that it is both foundational and central in a persons life. I find that this is true whether you walk the sacred path of celibacy or the sacred path of mo...

The extraordinary in the ordinary

This morning it is easy to believe in magic. At the sun slowly rises out of the aegean sea and the sound of crashing waves envolopes my experience. The old sea battering this old Island saturated with myth and magic.

The little boy in me stirs filled with wonder and awe. The wonders of story, the wonders of myth, the wonders of love, the wonders of passion, the wonders of legend, the wonders of life.

Yet this is not the goal. It is easy to believe in magic and wonders when you are surrounded...

Staying open…

For most people it is hard to open the heart. To just allow love to flow freely in and out. It is hard because we are so guarded, I think especially here in Scandinavia. A friend of mine argued yesterday that it has something to do with the cold and the light. We crawl deep inside ourselves during the dark times and we shut down, we stay hidden, we avoid openness. It may be true, or maybe we are just as afraid of rejection as everyone else.

Whatever the reason for our reluctance to open up it...

The secret to getting what you want in life …

I am truly blessed, not long ago I had a conversation with a friend who accused me of “wanting to have it all” and in response I simply replied, yes, I do wan’t it all, and you know what, reflecting on it I do think I have it all. In fact the way my life is shaping up I am really getting everything I could ever dream of and some things I didn’t even dream I could possibly have.

So I thought I would share with you the secret to getting what you want in life … Are you ready for this life changi...

I have lost a day …

Tears are streaming down her little face, she is furious and full of regret. She kicks and screams and the tears keep rolling.

What is the matter honey? I ask my daughter.

She looks at me bewildered, like I should know, like I should be automatically in tune with her current plight. She looks at me with total seriousness and not a little blame and she says:

I lost a whole day! Now it is to late, it is gone, I can never do what I wanted to do today, because the day is gone.

I try to suppr...

Life sings to me …

I am sitting at a small cafe looking out over a busy street.
The sun kisses my skin and fills me with life, love and power.
People are walking about busy with their own lives, their own stories.

There is a pulse, a rhythm unfolding before me and I feel the flow.
There is a harmony, a tune and I can hear the song.

The song of the “I am”, the song of “So ham” the song of the eternal.
I am swept up by the melody and my soul dances away.

A dear friend sends me messages of pain and death.
The pain r...

Greater things….

It is interesting when we read the Christian scriptures we are told in the gospel of John that Jesus tells the disciples that they will do greater things than him.

Our reaction is immediate, how could anyone ever do greater things than Jesus, the son of god? Instantly forgetting that we to are the sons and daughters of the divine. We also assume that the greater things Jesus spoke of are super natural, that is if Jesus fed 5000 with two fishes and three bread pieces, we assume that we will ha...

What if we could own our inability…

So in light of my most recent post on the Ashley Madison reveal and the churches inability to provide a positive alternative to the schools sex education (or lack of sex ed). I have been pondering what could we do … when I read this article voicing some of the same concerns and citing a study made of young persons sex debuts and habits:

A recent study about teenage girls and sex revealed that girls are having sex more than ever before—and often rough sex. The article states that oral sex is...

Cover that up now please!

I am reading on facebook that 400 church leaders, Pastors and Deacons are resigning of the resent Ashley Madison reveal(article ). People are outraged and indignant.

I am confused. Why does it surprise us when we have wrapped up sexuality in so many layers of taboo and shame? Does it really surprise us that leaders within the church would use a dating site that fascilitates extra marital connections when porn surfing is a bigger problem in the church than without, when divorce rates in th...