Do you know anyone that has such a deep seated inferiority complex they are difficult to be around? Whatever they say or do is never good enough. You want to say, “No one is as bad as you think you are? Lighten up! I have known people who have actually turned from God because they…
Immigration
… he gave power to to become children of God, who were born, not of blood, or the will of the flesh or the will of man, but of God. — John 1:12-13. Perhaps all the candidates who are demonizing immigrants need to take a step back and read John’s gospel. We are all God’s children. Our…
How Should We Live?
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure…. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless. — Ecclesiastes 2:10 A, 11A What keeps us on the good path? Perhaps what we are doing is what we are called to do,…
Deliverance
No this meditation is not about James Dickey’s book or the subsequent movie. Grandma Danny’s Thanksgiving Alphabet — “Deliverance — which never can be excelled. (2 Corinthians 1:10)” 2 Corinthians 1:10 — “Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.” Paul in…
Seven Pillars of Equanimity/Balance
I leave to each of your individual mediations the seven pillars that lead to equanimity/balance Virtue or integrity Faith or confidence Mindfullness A sense of well being Understanding or wisdom Insight Freedom or Letting Go We often talk about freedom as individual independence — the ability to do or be whatever/whoever we want. There is…