Forever rely on God. Fifty years ago I expected that the United States would be a dictatorship within five to ten years. Others’ reliance on God prevented that. I am still waiting. …

This morning my dogs and I were walking through the woods in a local park. Ahead on the trail I saw a woman in a flowery blue dress with her white hair pulled back. She was walking towards us. An angel whispered in my ear that she was seventy-six years…

How are we going to make it through massive inflation? The outrageous doubling of gas prices in less than two years? Rising food prices and almost everything else? Rents and the costs of housing devour our savings. How can we survive? I am going to challenge you in the same…

Our world feels as if we humans are becoming ever more disconnected from ourselves and each other. Once we had the capacity to cordially disagree on topics. Now we find ourselves with knives drawn on almost everything. …

To be spiritually alive we have to be in the “do” part of life. The part where we are in the middle of life, making things happen. Living in the “don’t” kills any hope of a positive spiritual life, much less spiritual progress. It’s like the young woman I met…

The picture I chose for my web page is not the most popular with people trying to figure out what I look like. Who I am. Deciding whether or not they want to read the articles I’ve written. All of which is fine with me. I use this picture because…

There is a pseudo-spiritual, pseudo-psychiatric saying that we are to forgive and forget. Depending on your point of view, it goes back to the Bible, Shakespeare (King Lear) or Cervantes (Don Quixote). I strongly recommend that people look to either Shakespeare or Cervantes on this one. The Bible never tells…

Keep focus. Pay attention to the unexpected. If our concentration strays from the important details, such as eating or sleeping, we put our lives in jeopardy. I’ve had times when I was so engrossed in something that I forgot to eat. I completely lost track of time. It took the…

Perception in spirituality, like in any other part of our daily lives, is critical to whether we grow. How we grow. That being the case, you and I are going to be word nerds. Let’s take the word perceive and the ideas behind it back to the root. Percipere is…