If you make a God shaped pot in your head, something will fill it and it will look like God to you. God does not look like anything. Always remember that you are the one that made the pot look how it looks to you. Culture, religion, may have helped…

A poem. A reflection. — God is bigger than our beliefs about Him. She is bigger than any gendered pronoun that we use to refer to Her. It is bigger than any name that we call It. When you deny someone else’s belief about God, when you say they are wrong and judge them as…

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. — spoken by Augustus McCrae” Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove — In the spirit of the season of spring and Easter, when many of us contemplate ideas of resurrection and rebirth, I thought it appropriate to write on this topic. I hope you find these thoughts in the spirit of humility and surrender as I intended when I wrote them. Before…

Thoughts on self-identity — One thing that we know for certain is that everything changes. Nothing is permanent. We try to take refuge in so many things, thinking that those things will shelter us as we weather the storms of life. But the storm ravages all, including our shelters. …

Thoughts on living and dying — I’ve been to a lot funerals here lately. Unfortunately, I know I’m not the only one. In some respects, I’m fortunate that I’ve only been to a relatively few compared to some. That little bit of reality doesn’t do much to alleviate the pain of loss. Of course, going to…

Reading news and opinion articles these days all seem to be centered around the inevitable “collapse” of our cultural and societal norms and institutions, and I would agree that in many ways we are indeed in precarious times. However, I feel that to a great extent many miss a much…

I’m going to have to preface this quite a bit. Let me start off by saying that I am not a soldier or a fighter or a law enforcement officer. I am a pacifist. I abhor conflict in every possible way. There was a time when I would do anything…

What are you praying for? — A strange thought occurred to me a while back. In the light of all of the crazy things going on the in the world, all of the death, uncertainty, anger, and fear, I thought to myself, “I no longer know what to pray for”. I sat with that thought for…

Words are wind — My belief is not so different from yours. The values and actions that I derive from my beliefs are based on the same foundation as yours. …