Inconvenient Trees 3 Jan04

Inconvenient Trees 3

Part 3: The Tree of Life The wilderness, the unknown, the future – these are the things that trouble us throughout our lives.   For many of us this existence is a scary thing.  We try not to think about it so much but sometimes we can’t help it – or at minimum I can’t help it.  So...

I Believe It… Oct24

I Believe It…

The other night I was out running. Being a night owl, I do most of my activities in the dark. So while out running I saw what looked like flying candles with parachutes. There was one, then two, then four and I started running faster to get a better look but then they would disappear. I...

Questioning the Answers Oct23

Questioning the Answers

A year or so ago, I found myself in a bit of a rough patch, trying to make sense of a jumble of thoughts that refused to go away. There were a couple of pointed conversations with God about this, but mostly it involved just laying awake in the dark and staring up at the ceiling. I couldn’t bring myself to say it out loud, even to my husband – who was on his own (wonderful, he said) spiritual journey. Those may have been the good old days (if you measure “good” by the lack of existential angst.) Because all I was doing was wrestling with someone else’s journey. (Can what he believes actually be true? Really? Hmmm. That’s a new...