I grew up in a home where God was never discussed. Consequently, God had no part in my thinking when I began searching for meaning in my life. I eventually began justifying my existence (providing myself with some meaning,) in terms of my service to my fellow man. And, after God and his Son became … Read More →
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Jesus Bought Our Sins
Jesus bought our sins. He paid for them with his life. Are you still pretending you own them? … Read More →
Several Shades of Gray
I awoke about 4:50 this morning and realized that I have been robbing myself and everyone else, and therefore God. Rather than living the full spectrum of human emotional color, I have emoted only several shades of gray. Having absorbed by osmosis my mother’s trauma-induced emotional shutdown as my normal way of doing life, intellect … Read More →
A Better Way of Being Stable
I was born when my mother was twenty-five. By that time she had already lost her first husband in a motorcycle accident on the ice in New York. She next lost the father of her first child in WWII, after which her daughter was kidnapped and never recovered. So I was born to a traumatized … Read More →
How Our Shepherd Is Serving Me
About four days ago I was praying, “How do you want me to help each of my friends individually? How do you want me to serve my customers, my neighbors? How do you want me to serve you?” Suddenly John’s comment popped into my head, “We love because first He loved us.” That became “We … Read More →
Our Shepherd Teaches Me a Lesson
At a Lecture After seeing a couple of customers in the morning and early afternoon, I picked up Mark (who had invited me to my first silent retreat,) at 4:00 PM and headed to the Passionist Retreat Center in Sierra Madre. The objective of the Silent Retreat was to turn off the noise, the hustle … Read More →
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