[Want the 6-minute audiofile?] Beauty is, first and foremost, a quality of divinity, which we experience in the presence of the God whose spirit abides within us. When we are fogged in the dim realms of mind, and even the dim realms of soul, the borderland of spirit consciousness is always …
The Easy Version
Let’s Help Construct a New Philosophy of Living—and Grow How would you express your current philosophy of living? Would you like to develop it further? Here’s an opportunity to do so based on the idea that thinking aspires to truth, feeling responds to beauty, and doing can be governed by …
Ungainly Flapping
Ungainly flapping. Only in mercy so thick could I take flight. Heavy heron wings, moving slowly—why would any flock of birds follow? Yet I fly to you unconcerned. By you, with you, and in you, I dive into the water, having glimpsed a fish and heard: “Come to me, all you who labor and are …
Why Laugh?
Laughter? Reasons? Causes? Occasions? A child securely strapped to the back of his mother on a wonderful hike; the awareness of being with you--whom I love!--at the beginning of each podcast episode; the complete security that follows total commitment to the will of God; good news; a good joke; the …
Divine positive attitudes
Problems are more likely to be overwhelming when multiple kinds of problem are tangled together: uncertainty, disappointment, apparent defeat, the sheer difficulty of what is to be done, the immensity of the task, and the inexplicable in a situation. How do you learn the matching positive …
Vacations that teach insight
Vacations! During World War I around Christmas time, 1914, a series of unofficial cease-fires occurred, and German, British, and French troops sang Christmas hymns and fraternized together. Next, consider lyrics from “Singing in the Rain”: “I'm singin' in the rain . . . What a glorious feelin', I'm …
