We live in an age of great anxiety and fear and dislocation of the basic principles of our democracy. If we are wise, we will allow that fear and anxiety and dislocation to bring us right to the present moment, to the presence of God in every moment, where He can reveal the joy […]
When Jesus, after great agony in Gethsemane, stood up to the Temple officials, the Roman Governor, and all His accusers, faced His awful death and then rose again from the dead three days later, He set a pattern of life for us that we, His followers, still go through today. Although we may feel […]
When we think of the spiritual journey, I think we are so now-focused that we don’t think of the whole trajectory of our lives and how what’s happening today fits into it. I have thought a lot along these lines because I grew up in a hell-fire-and-damnation church in Louisville KY from ages 1 ½ […]
Truer words were never spoken or written: “The world is too much with us; late and soon,/Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…”[1] How could William Wordsworth who penned this sonnet around 1802 have known our world so well? We lay waste our powers– our attention, our truer selves, our purpose, our talents […]
At any moment in time there are two questions to ask: What am I called to do? and What am to learn from this, whatever is in my life right now? If Jesus is to be our guide and mentor, then we need to consult with Him at every turn. For what good is it […]
How do we know for sure that we are following Jesus’ teaching, following in His footsteps as we journey towards our life lived wholly in God? There is definitely a time and place for a pastor’s or a denomination’s teachings at the beginning of our life in Him, but Jesus warns us so often in […]
It’s been thirty-seven years since I gave my life to Christ, and I’ve learned a lot since then about how God speaks to me. Sometimes I hear his thoughts in my mind, so different from my own that they stand out, as if highlighted, like the time I heard this: “I have an agenda for […]