It is hard when you hear people have left your church. When one does, sometimes more follow. I heard so recently. I didn’t know about that. I was devastated. So I went to this beach pictured here afterward for over an hour to just recover from the blow. After meditating before this beautiful river I live on, I finally came to a place of repose again. I have fond memories of this beach. This is the beach where we came... Read more

I’m reading Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. I want to quote one sentence from his introduction: … I wonder if it doesn’t make more sense to speak in terms of an American paradox– that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily. When I read that, I was immediately reminded of something that has happened not infrequently in my personal life concerning spirituality. For so many years I had... Read more

One’s resistance against the principalities and powers must be diligent! I disappointed myself and, I am afraid, others on Sunday morning. We have been having very joyful Sunday mornings for about a month or so. They have been awesome, and we have left encouraged. This last Sunday was not the same. There weren’t nearly as many of us. So many people were away. The weather was rainy and dismal. I was asked by the worship leader if I would play... Read more

Something I’m finding frustrating about the church right now is that it doesn’t allow for change… neither institutional or personal. But that is always the problem with change. For instance: the church might talk about change, but doesn’t admit the impossibility of doing it. I might talk about personal change, but won’t recognize the impossibility of doing it. That’s the problem with change: who is the changer, and who is the changed? When I say to myself: I’m going to... Read more