It’s that time of the year when folks partake of a communion service. I think they feel sometimes that there’s a little magic in the bread and wine. As if there is a special property associated with the symbolism. Some folks do communion every Sunday, good for remembrance and not so good when practiced as…
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 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…
We have all been taught through the years that in order to receive something from God we have to have faith, or said another way, believing. And it is certainly true that believing pleases God. What you believe is what you receive with no limitations at all. But, where this formula gets messy is when…
I believe one of the greatest hinderances preventing people from getting to God is religion. Oh, the irony. The one place you ought to be able to go to learn about God, insists on adding in lots of unpleasant elements. Yes, there is plenty of talk concerning who God is as you might expect, but…
Okay let’s get a little personal tonight. Do you remember the last time you felt really good? Not just happy in a moment, but having an overall a sense of contentment and confidence in things working out for you? A time when your mind was completely at ease and hovered there for awhile? Inside you…
They say you know a man by his fruit. Well to take it a step further, the fruit you are able to garner for yourself in any category of your life indicates your success or failure. This is taking responsibility at the highest level. Instead of blaming God, circumstances or bad luck, you have to…
Generally, most people at an amateur level of golf, face a certain set of challenges throughout a round. Although they are similar, they are never quite the same. There are different clubs to manage based on distances to the hole and how far you think you can whack it. Then there’s the whacking it part.…
As a card carrying member of the approval seekers club, I can tell you a few things about the pitfalls of the game. Us approval seekers generally got our start early on trying to persuade some meanie to like us. Once we learned the game we could wield powers over people by making sure everyone…
When I was a youngster living in the state of Maine, the radio announcer would say, Potatoes, problems and people, that’s the name of the game here in Maine.” Not all people have potatoes, but all people have problems. The reason something is a problem for us is because we don’t know how to solve…