Nov 24, 2014 | Religion & Spirituality
I’ve been thinking about the meaning of life. It’s the kind of monumental question I used to worry like a terrier with a toy when I was young and that I don’t have time for now that I’m older. But occasionally the question arises: Do we make meaning out of a human...
Feb 2, 2013 | Religion & Spirituality
Not long ago I was asked to speak to a small group about prayer and praying, which are rather distasteful words to most of us. And yet we’re praying all the time. Thoughts are prayers. When we’re worrying, we’re praying for what we don’t want to have happen. When...
Jan 6, 2013 | Religion & Spirituality
In the past months I’ve been going through one of those dark periods that fall over me now and again, of dismay and despair. My distress was so great that I felt the greatest kindness I could offer anyone was silence– inflicting no words, blogs, bubbles of vanity or...
Sep 9, 2012 | Religion & Spirituality
Part II ~ A Feral Feline Spirit of Love. I tell a lot of angel stories in this blog, as well as experiences of baffling coincidence and spirits and Afterlife. This story is about an animal angel. It was told to me by Jill, who lives in Tennessee. Jill is a recovering...
Sep 7, 2012 | Religion & Spirituality
Atheism And Faith I know many agnostics and atheists. The other day I was talking to one, a man I like, and curious to know why he espoused this faith, I asked him if he had ever had an intuition or spiritual experience, that blink of the eye in which you see an aura...
Mar 6, 2012 | Religion & Spirituality
Last week tornados devastated the Midwest. It takes your breath away. “What is the most important question one can pose?” Einstein was asked. He answered: “Is the Universe a friendly place?” The question can be expressed another way: Is our present pessimism –...
