I think it would be a fair assumption that most people hope to get into heaven. Heaven being that place where we live with God forever. Yet, so many religions and creeds and dogmas exist, all with different entrance exam requirements. Some preach self-denial as a response to their “wicked” flesh. Others have extensive lists…
Recently, I attended a weekend seminar focused on living our identity in Christ. There’s more to that, of course, but for now this is how the weekend started. We took a dreaded redeye flight from Salt Lake City to Tampa. It was scheduled to leave at 11:30 pm. but ended up one hour late. Now…
Living life as we do, we spend our days evaluating and analyzing our experience. It’s the strangest thing. We interact with the world, then we tell ourselves stories about what it means. We really have no way of knowing what someone means, other than asking them, and even then you still my not know. We…
The concept of faith or belief has been wrestled with for centuries. It’s almost universally known that faith gets the job done. The Olympics would testify to that with some kid winning gold because they actually thought they could. Yet for most people, faith is a real head scratcher. I will sheepishly admit to spending…
I’m not sure if you watched the Grammy’s last night, but there was this beautiful 80 second segment aired by Spotify designed to encourage young artists to trust their own sound. So many young artists began so soon because they trusted their inner voice more than a whole world that said otherwise. Arrested by the…
Your light force is the life you have inside you. When your life is functioning effortlessly; when your life is unencumbered; when your life is more about accepting rather than grasping, your light shines bright. On those sunny days where you walk about absorbed in the moment with no anxious concern for what happened yesterday…
I’m going to say some things today that might shock you. I mean the accepted norm is that all people are broken in some capacity and in need of constant renovation. The notion that there is a part of you needing to be fixed and until that thing is fixed, nothing else will work out…
As I languish on the back patio soaking in the warmth of the sun, I can’t help but think about how good light is. It is the light that sustains us. It gives us life. Best of all, light helps us see where we are going. Walking on the cliff isn’t scary unless it’s nighttime.…
Every New Year we make these promises to ourselves to change something. It’s not so much that we are unthankful for our lives, but rather an inner quest to do something a different way, see something a different way or experience something a different way. And for all the lofty promises we make to ourselves,…
I should begin by saying this world we presently inhabit will never be without conflict. It’s the defeated nature of the thing. Getting challenged is to be expected. Things will not always go your way despite your earnest wish. You will find yourself, in varying degrees, at various times, being pricked, prodded and poked. Clashes…