Posts on religion/spirituality and man’s search for meaning.
You have two lives in this life: the life of your ego and the life of your soul. The life of the soul is eternal and contains the gifts and values that form the core of who you are. Your soul is the seed of your destiny and individuality. Like any seed, it must be…
Broken: not working; in need of repair. Broken has a bad connotation. Things that are broken are often thrown out. Their value drops dramatically. Yet, for individuals who have been living at odds with their deeper self, brokenness can be salvation. When you are broken, life grinds to a halt. You can feel it shutting…
Darby is an 8 year-old girl from Seattle who at the age of 4 started leaving food for the crows in her backyard. When she was old enough to attend school she would break apart her sandwiches and leave a trail of crumbs behind her for the crows to gobble up. Naturally, she developed quite…
Some people choose not to participate in the game of life. They find it easier to sit in the stands–or not go to the stadium at all–than to risk losing, or winning. What they don’t understand is that even the “losers” win on life’s playing field. To put yourself out there, perchance to win, may…
A man shared the following recurring dream: I am at my parent’s house. It is the mansion they owned after my mother inherited a lot of money, but before my step-father gambled most of it away. I used to live in the former chauffeur’s house on the property. There was also a separate servants’ quarters.…
Danny was a basketball prodigy. He was tall, athletic, and had a natural passion for the game. He played on school and community teams where he honed his skills and outplayed his opponents. Danny knew he was good and saw basketball as his ticket through school and perhaps life. When it came to his classes,…
A 24 year-old woman experienced the following events, which I am fortunate to share in her own words: In the fall of 1972 my mother, a retired university professor, was making a relocation to live in La Paz, Baja California. She packed up her Chevy Blazer, and one of her freshman English students, Tom, and…
Got your Oprah glasses on, and your Eckhart Tolle reader, your immersed within the present, and you’re feeling all that oneness, and everybody’s groovy, and all beliefs are valid, and everything’s respected, and empathy flows freely, except to those who disagree. All groups have a shadow, just as all people have a shadow. The danger…
On the battlefield, bullets whizzing past my ears, a war which I created through rebelliousness and obstinance. Chaos reigns supreme and none of it will end until I cry uncle, and God my service lend, and to God’s will I bend. The psyche will not be put off or in hubris be ignored, and every…
Tom didn’t think he would be able to get a job. At age 58, with graying hair and a noticeable limp from an old back injury, he figured most employers would see him as a liability rather than an asset to their organization. But when he walked into the lobby of a small company looking…