Balancing one’s dreams and drives with the harsh realities and circumstances of life can be a challenge, right? For most of my life, I have lived with big dreams. I have dreamt of being famous, of making history, of Read more
BLACK FRIDAY and the “Scarcity Effect”…
Black Friday’s success is based largely on what retailers call “the scarcity effect.” By creating the illusion in the minds of shoppers that a product is a “must have” item that is also Read more
It abounds everywhere, doesn’t it? Religious people use the word faith so much, you would think they actually knew something about it. Like a person who regularly drives a car, as I and perhaps you do as well or Read more
I am always arriving, always en route, always going somewhere, am I not? Are you not?
Yet, whenever I finally get THERE I discover it’s only just another HERE. I suspect, when you and I can truly be HERE, Read more
It is one thing to do good. Quite another thing, however, when the crafty ego within you seizes the good you do as a way to be revered. Mark Nepo
How does he know me so well?
This has Read more
I do not know who said it but it is full of wisdom: “I envy the tree, how it reaches but never holds.”
For as long as I can remember, something in me has reached for the heavens. I’d Read more
Pam and I had lunch yesterday at a little restaurant in old Louisville. We were discussing the condition of a friend and family member in a nearby hospital whom we were going to see following lunch. His condition had Read more
This is so true, isn’t it?
Nepo nails me when he writes of himself: “I waste so many hours not just in trying to get published, but in hunting for the right publisher, one that will make me feel Read more
In a new book I must read, and you might wish to read as well, is T. E. Lurhmann’s When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. In the book, the author tells of a Read more
Mechthild of Magdeburg once said, “A fish cannot drown in water; a bird does not fall in air. Each creature God made must live in its own true nature.”
Then that’s what the writers of Genesis meant, is it Read more
The Sufi poet, Ghalib, said, “For the raindrop, joy is entering the river.”
When you and I first appear, this is how we arrive – in oneness with all there is. Which is why, when you look into Read more
I finished running around our neighborhood yesterday and, as I slowed to a brisk walk the final few hundred yards, I suddenly became present. That is to say, I became aware that I had just finished running nearly one Read more
As with most great movies, there are many parallels to our shared experience as human beings in the most recent blockbuster, “The Hunger Games.”
I loved this movie. And now, I must read the books.
In one of the Read more
“If you want to be happy,” said Leo Tolstoy, “BE.” I used to hear people say this and I would think, “Be what?”
I know now, that’s the wrong question. Why? Because it implies there is something you must Read more
I have always loved Louis L’Amour’s statement: “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished…that will be the beginning.”
I suspect I’ve loved that statement because more than once I’ve believed it was finished…as if it Read more
If Jesus and God were one, as he claimed they were (John 10:30). And, if Jesus prayed, as of course he did (John 17:21) that you and God would be one, too.
Then, are you and God one? The Read more
For much of my adult life, I’ve hidden my inner self from others…my questions, my doubts, my fears, my terror over being judged or worse rejected. In these last few years, however, I’m learning to be more honest, more Read more
