The Archive

Category: Speaking to the Soul

Pancake batter and eternal life

September 16, 2012 No Comments

Psalm 24, 29 (Morning) Psalm 8, 84 (Evening) Job 38:1, 18-41 Revelation 8:1-8 Matthew 5:21-26 Psalm 8 (The St. Helena Psalter:) O God, our Governor,*

An unexpected history lesson

September 15, 2012 No Comments

Commemoration of James Chisholm, priest (1815-1855) Psalm 116:5-9 Sirach 38:9-17 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 Matthew 24:1-8 I wasn’t born in Virginia, but I always consider myself

Whenever we are able to take our deep and often unconscious fears and threats, raise them into the light of consciousness, and look at them with rationality and faith, we become more mature and conscious, more congruent and less compulsive.

The Wood Duck

September 13, 2012 No Comments

All is still green, but the days are shortening and cooler than they were three weeks ago. Some days are still gorgeous, and on those

Love and Meaning

September 12, 2012 No Comments

Human beings can survive and prevail over great suffering and travail as long as our lives have meaning and love at their core. It is the source of our courage. It is regenerative. And its absence is life threatening.

Half Full or Half Empty?

September 11, 2012 No Comments

For most people, it seems, it was easier to believe that Jesus was blaspheming than that he was speaking the truth about his oneness with God. Probably for most people, it is easier to believe that they are sinners than that they are divine.

A Certain Bad Answer

September 10, 2012 No Comments

Visitors like Elihu can make a sufferer feel doubly cursed — not only for the suffering of their illness, but also for the implied responsibility that it was their fault that they didn’t get well.

Bless the Lord, my soul

September 9, 2012 3 Comments

AM Psalm 103 Rev. 14:1-7,13 “Bless the Lord, my soul” is one of my favorites. It’s because this Psalm reminds me that all the Psalms

Job and Eliphaz

September 8, 2012 No Comments

It’s hard to be accused of something I haven’t done. It’s bad enough when I did do it, but how much harder when I am innocent and no one will believe me.

Victimizing the Victim

September 7, 2012 No Comments

The book of Job declares that anyone who grounds their faith in a belief that life will reward the diligent, upright and honest, is simply failing to see reality. Anyone who persists in defending systems they believe to be just, will end up victimizing those who suffer unjustly, victimizing the victim.