Seems Like God…

Perhaps it is the curse of living in a northern climate, the long days without sunshine, the yellowing of pristine snow  by the trails of salt trucks and human industry but I find myself hearing the bell ring for that dark tea time of the soul (to steal a phrase from Douglas Adams).
It tolls with the [...]

It has been suggested for agapé to occur – and a shift in perception that sees everything as being connected -  we need spiritual transformation to occur.
But how?
Perhaps it can occur through practices such as meditation, but this has not been  my personal experience. Like others I’ve encountered, my spiritual transformation occurred on a long  dark [...]

This is the first time I have tried this so I hope it goes where it should.
All of us are watching the coverage of the devastation in Haiti.People are dead and dying; people are without power, electricity, food and water. The country is without infrastructure, power and communication to the outside world is sparse.
Aid is [...]

A candle cannot burn without fire. What is it that sets you alight with passion? What makes you want to reach out to others? To make a difference in the world?

Sometimes, even God takes out ads – Football player Tim Tebow makes John 16:33 Number 1 Google search.

On November 11, at 11am – please, take a pittance of time to remember; the past, the present, the future, the sacrifice.  And the hope.

The Year With Two Thanksgivings – sometimes we need to celebrate the harvest early.

here’s a Native American saying that I like a lot - Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

When we give the world back to our kids, maybe we could clean it up a little bit first.

I think that religion is at its best when it asks questions and at its worst when it seeks to answer them. - Karen Armstrong

Or, as Edmund Burke wrote – All that’s necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Burke lived between 1729 and 1794, proving once again that old adage “the more things change the more they stay the same.”
I have been challenged more than once on this statement, which I coined [...]