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 […]

        Beliefs are a fine starting place for the Life of the Spirit, but they don’t take you very far.  They take you to the threshold of a real relationship with God, but only your faith, perseverance and love and the healing power of the Holy Spirit will take you all the […]

        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 […]

It has taken thirty years by my count for the Holy Spirit to lure me into total submission! In my forties I woke up to the realization that all that I was taught about life and God was a dead end. By my fifties I was learning how to access the deeper levels of my […]

Forget about making New Years’ resolutions! They last about a month and are usually about diet and exercise after the excesses of the holiday season. Decide. Decide to put God first in your life. There are amazing things that happen when we decide to do something and then carry through. A decision echoes throughout the […]

Start with believing in God/Christ/Holy Spirit, but beliefs are only an invitation to us into a life lived in the presence of God. They do not, by themselves, take us anywhere closer to God/Jesus/Christ/Spirit. But… if you want to live in God’s presence, feel God’s love, realize the promise of your own creation, be sure […]

Called to gratitude… Called to recognize the Divine in everything… Called to the depths and heights… Called to love, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, hospitality to all… Called by you, Lord, to be present in this moment … Called to serve… Called to give abundantly as we’ve been given to… Called by our very nature to be […]

       I am aware that I am not sure how to address God in my writing, whether God or Christ or Jesus or the Holy Spirit would be the preferred name, whether He or She is the proper way to address God or what the preferences of my readers in naming God are. You might […]