Do you believe in God? If yes, can you prove that God exists? While some may use scientific means to try and prove or disprove the existence of God, for most of us, it is a matter of faith. We have a strong belief or trust that God exists, even if we don’t all agree on the definition of God or the role that God plays in our lives. In the book Rethink God, Nadiez Bahi offer us a modern-day... Read more
Q: “How are things going?” A: “Busy. I’m very busy.” Over the past several years, this has been a common exchange among me and friends and acquaintances in the business world. Everyone is just…so…busy. At first glance that might seem like a good thing. Busy means you’re being productive. Busy means you’re not lollygagging. Busy means you’re valued by your employer because they’re giving you lots to do. Want to know the real issue with busy? Busy doesn’t equal happy.... Read more
There’s a thin veil that separates us from the world beyond our gaze and it may be stranger than we imagine. We hear about it in near-death experiences (NDEs), in stories about visits and signals passed on from the dead to the living, and in the tales of visitations from both aliens and angels. It’s the latter I’m going to talk about here, specifically the event known as The Miracle of Fatima where 3 children claimed to have been visited... Read more
I want to know for sure if there is more to life than this meaningless materialistic world. I have been quite successful in life by almost all measures. Yet, somehow, I don’t feel fulfilled. That’s a quote from the new book Rethink God by Nadiez Bahi and it captures what many of us feel at some point in life: Is that all there is? Only Bahi doesn’t just sit back and contemplate his existential plight, he travels “the corners of... Read more
I was in a bad way. Miserable, out of my mind. There were days when I would lie in bed, drapes closed, the day outside sliding into night and back to day, and I just didn’t want to deal. Deal with my thoughts. Deal with being sick. Deal with heartache. Deal…with…life. The words above are from Kaval Ravikant and, as you might have surmised, he was in a very bad place. Not only was he physically and spiritually not well,... Read more
When you pray, what do you pray for? Do you pray for specific things to happen, say a promotion at work, the attention of a person you’re romantically interested in, or to win the Powerball lottery? Do you pray for the well-being and happiness of others, perhaps for a close friend or one of your children or grandchildren? I was thinking about the nature of prayer recently, during the final days of my father-in-law’s life. I ran into a neighbor... Read more
The American monk Thomas Merton once told a story about climbing the ladder of success. Merton pointed out that we can spend years of our lives climbing the corporate or economic ladder. Up and up and up. Only to find that when we get to the top of our ladder, it’s leaning against the wrong wall. In Falling Upward, A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr reminds us that our “supposed achievements” of the first half of... Read more
It’s Easter week and if you attend Christian church services in the coming days, you’ll hear the story of the resurrection of Jesus. In a nutshell, it goes like this: Jesus was crucified, died and was buried—and on the third day he rose from the dead. It’s the third day that’s worth we’re looking at, because as it turns out there are many different tales as to what happened on the day of Jesus’s resurrection. There are two variations that... Read more
Are you having a good day today? Will you have a good day tomorrow? It might be a little late to impact the day you’re currently living through, but there is a way to prepare for a better day tomorrow. It starts when you wake up and involves taking a few simple steps to get your day off to a good start. A good day starts with a good morning. You’ve heard the expression that someone “got up on the... Read more
Stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy that dates all the way back to 300 B.C. Yet despite the fact its best known voices, Seneca the Younger and Marcus Aurelius, lived and taught around the time of Jesus Christ, it still holds great sway today. Both old and new books on stoicism, by authors like Ryan Holiday, regularly top Amazon’s best-selling philosophy book list. The stoic philosophy is based on a system of ethics that include having a set of high... Read more
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