Life is a won­der­ful mys­tery that we are all a part of. Every­thing, every­one is con­nected. We are even con­nected to the God, Ground of All Being, Source of All Life and Love that is behind the whole thing and within the whole and every part of it. If only we could see and feel […]

The sea­sons change and so do I. Life is a con­stant process of change. It never stays the same unless we’re stuck and blind to what’s going on around us. Every day is new, fresh and fra­grant. We can enjoy the beauty of the sun shim­mer­ing on the leaves of the tree out­side our window […]

Well, I’ve been con­sumed the past cou­ple of days with the task of buy­ing a new com­puter sys­tem. There­fore, I haven’t blogged. I crashed my printer last week and had to buy a new one, and in the process dis­cov­ered how really old my com­puter was (5 years). I decided to upgrade to a notebook […]

How often we have to com­pro­mise between what we want and what is attain­able. For exam­ple, I really like Den­nis Kucinich’s posi­tions on issues like defense, trade, etc.. He is who I would like to see elected pres­i­dent because he would do the things I’d like to see hap­pen. Yet the media says he’s unelectable, […]

As I under­stand it, we are one with God. We have the same qual­i­ties as God, but in dif­fer­ent quan­tity. God is infi­nite. We are infin­i­tes­i­mal. God is the whole. We are the part. The part is meant to serve the whole. When we are in union with God, God’s energy can flow through us […]

Learn­ing to main­tain bal­ance in life is one of the most impor­tant things. Stay cool, calm and col­lected. Sure, it’s OK to get excited when some­thing goes well and the emo­tions well up. Sure, it’s OK to get bummed out when things go poorly and that sink­ing feel­ing comes along. The trick is to maintain […]

Well, I just returned from the cru­ci­fix­ion of another good pas­tor. Rev. Mary Mar­tin, of Wallin Con­gre­ga­tional United Church of Christ in Grand Rapids, Michi­gan was just dis­missed by a con­gre­ga­tional vote after months of con­flict includ­ing legal actions and a lock-out. The meet­ing could not even be held at the church but was held […]

Life unfolds mys­te­ri­ously around us every day. How aware are we of life’s deeper mys­ter­ies? Do we take the time to expe­ri­ence the joy of just being or are we too caught up in our doings? When one takes the time to med­i­tate, to stop the end­less chat­ter of the mind, to be in the […]

I feel really happy and opti­mistic about the future of the US for the first time in a long time. Wes Clark’s entry into the pres­i­den­tial race is a source of real encour­age­ment. I like some of the other Demo­c­ra­tic con­tenders like Dean and Kusinich, but I think Clark has a real chance of winning. […]

Last July, I resigned as pas­tor of a church I served for three years. I was a United Church of Christ pas­tor for eleven years at three churches. I got tired of serv­ing per­sons who were stuck and didn’t want to grow and change. Shortly after resign­ing, I was brows­ing in a book­store when a […]