The Why of My Life
In a desolate parking garage. In a lonely office chair. In a desert canyon. On a moldy mattress in the Amazon. In bed one lazy morning. Just some of the places where the whispered urgings of the soul delivered a subtle but undeniable Truth. We mistakenly label these moments coincidences, synchronicities, epiphanies, kismet. But like [...]
Time to Wake Up
If we're fortunate during this thing we call life, something nudges us enough to suggest we're asleep. Not asleep in the way we're accustomed to thinking about it, but asleep in the sense that we're moving through this life utterly oblivious to what is really going on. Usually the source of this nudge is suffering, [...]
Leaving the Sufferer Behind
How miserable everyone is. A global pandemic, political and cultural unrest, economic struggles - the list of challenges is seemingly endless. Makes you want to stop the planet and get off, doesn't it? I remember similar days when I didn't want to get out of bed, when I couldn't escape the deluge of negative thoughts. [...]
The Unseen World
Words are increasingly difficult to find. I stare at this blank screen unable to articulate what continues to unfold here. Perhaps they will come. In most cases, they don't, or I delete the ones that do. If they do, you'll be reading this :-) I can attest, yet again, that if you persist in this [...]
Living a Self-Centered Life
On the rare occasions I check the news or social media channels, I see nothing has changed. Those on the Right are convinced the nation is awash with anarchists forcing the nation into some kind of lawless, socialist welfare state; those on the Left are convinced the nation is teeming with racists hellbent on creating [...]
Shhhhhh…..
You and I don't know what we are. Don't know how we got here nor where we're off to next. Yet we are forever tossing around our opinions about this, that, everything. Look at the world news. Fear dominates, all of humankind paralyzed by the idea they'll come down with COVID, become seriously ill, die. [...]
A Dog’s Life
Man oh man, did you hear about.....? And depending on what comes next, we're off and running with our passionately held opinions on the subject. I think they call it 'triggered' these days. The more volatile the topic, the stronger our opinions. "Who do they think they are?!" "What is happening to this world?!" "We [...]
The Gospel of Me
As an experiment, I recently shared a 50-minute video of two ER physicians / immunologists who have been on the front lines battling COVID. They offered up loads of data demonstrating that, regardless of where you look in the world, COVID mortality rates are pretty much in line with the seasonal flu. Are the doctors [...]
Let Go and Let God
True surrender is 'thy will,' not mine, isn't it? Isn't surrender in its purest form an acknowledgment that the I doing the surrendering hasn't got a clue how it got here or where it's going and that nobody else out there is going to be able to help either? True surrender is 100% Grade A, [...]
The Why of My Life
In a desolate parking garage. In a lonely office chair. In a desert canyon. On a moldy mattress in the Amazon. In bed one lazy morning. Just some of the places where the whispered urgings of the soul delivered a subtle but undeniable Truth. We mistakenly label these moments coincidences, synchronicities, epiphanies, kismet. But like [...]
Time to Wake Up
If we're fortunate during this thing we call life, something nudges us enough to suggest we're asleep. Not asleep in the way we're accustomed to thinking about it, but asleep in the sense that we're moving through this life utterly oblivious to what is really going on. Usually the source of this nudge is suffering, [...]
Leaving the Sufferer Behind
How miserable everyone is. A global pandemic, political and cultural unrest, economic struggles - the list of challenges is seemingly endless. Makes you want to stop the planet and get off, doesn't it? I remember similar days when I didn't want to get out of bed, when I couldn't escape the deluge of negative thoughts. [...]
The Unseen World
Words are increasingly difficult to find. I stare at this blank screen unable to articulate what continues to unfold here. Perhaps they will come. In most cases, they don't, or I delete the ones that do. If they do, you'll be reading this :-) I can attest, yet again, that if you persist in this [...]
Living a Self-Centered Life
On the rare occasions I check the news or social media channels, I see nothing has changed. Those on the Right are convinced the nation is awash with anarchists forcing the nation into some kind of lawless, socialist welfare state; those on the Left are convinced the nation is teeming with racists hellbent on creating [...]
Shhhhhh…..
You and I don't know what we are. Don't know how we got here nor where we're off to next. Yet we are forever tossing around our opinions about this, that, everything. Look at the world news. Fear dominates, all of humankind paralyzed by the idea they'll come down with COVID, become seriously ill, die. [...]
A Dog’s Life
Man oh man, did you hear about.....? And depending on what comes next, we're off and running with our passionately held opinions on the subject. I think they call it 'triggered' these days. The more volatile the topic, the stronger our opinions. "Who do they think they are?!" "What is happening to this world?!" "We [...]
The Gospel of Me
As an experiment, I recently shared a 50-minute video of two ER physicians / immunologists who have been on the front lines battling COVID. They offered up loads of data demonstrating that, regardless of where you look in the world, COVID mortality rates are pretty much in line with the seasonal flu. Are the doctors [...]
Let Go and Let God
True surrender is 'thy will,' not mine, isn't it? Isn't surrender in its purest form an acknowledgment that the I doing the surrendering hasn't got a clue how it got here or where it's going and that nobody else out there is going to be able to help either? True surrender is 100% Grade A, [...]
