The secret of the Life of the Spirit, the life lived in, with and for God, lies in knowing God’s voice within us and always following that voice. This active listening and heeding leads us into a co-creative relationship with God. I use this metaphor to describe my life: if my life […]
If we spend our days in worry and driven by anxiety, if we are constantly trying to control our life’s circumstances, if we feel free to live our lives as we wish without a thought for how it impacts others, especially those closest to us, if we are living out the cultural […]
Sometimes my dreams have touched me, inspired or intrigued me. But there was one a long time ago that taught me a great lesson that I still remember. In the dream I am stepping very carefully down a dark, narrow stairwell. I’m being very careful not to touch the stone […]
With prayers for the victims of the violence in Boston and of the explosion in West, Texas, and their families this past week; may they feel God’s presence and suffering with them in their grief… This week’s news has brought us face-to-face with the reality of today’s world and the senseless, sometimes accidental, sometimes deliberate, […]
The whole cloth of my life has been woven from conception with the warp of my DNA, era, family, and God and then interwoven with places where I lived, people, friends from across 70 years, jobs and vocation, interests and experiences. Traveling recently to California and seeing people I was once close to and some […]
My apologies for not posting last Monday. I did not have access to the internet for a week. So here is the one that should have posted then. What is faith? Sometimes when people talk about their faith, they are talking about what they believe. At other times, it seems like much more than […]
I want to propose that being created in God’s image means that we know something of what God knows, at least in our deepest selves, that we have some divine capacity within us that can know God at least in part and be deeply connected to God. It does not mean […]
Are you a prisoner of your own thinking? Are you trapped in servitude to an idea or way of life that no longer works for you? Are you a slave to someone else’s thinking? Are you living your own life or the life someone else designed for you? Look no farther than to Moses and […]
I don’t believe in original sin. And here I’d like to explore why I don’t. For a start I do believe that we are not like the other animals whose instinctual nature means that they will follow the arc of their creation as far as their impact on the whole ecology. For me we […]
Bundled up against the cold this week, I have been walking down to the Little Sugar Creek Greenway which is a mere block from my house, sometimes for an exercise walk and other times with my binoculars for a “bird” walk. In the last four days I have seen a pair of […]