by David Anderson
We all start out with a training-wheels god. It’s always a very much bigger version of mother and father (with all the bane and blessing that entails). It’s a god who looks after you but also looks in on you—so you’d better be good. As we grow older we keep riding the training-wheels god. Our […]
by David Anderson 2 Comments Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Faith/Trust, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it, Seeing
It’s the day after. The one that usually pulls you down. The day after Thanksgiving is such a downer we call it Black Friday. Retail therapy is the only upper we know for such a downer. The day after Christmas is the same, and everyone goes to see a “holiday movie.” The day after Easter […]
by David Anderson 4 Comments Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Faith/Trust, Happiness, Reality--trusting it, Surrender
My father calls himself a conservative. In 1964 he voted for Barry Goldwater, and these days his car sports a big blue bumper sticker: CAIN. He is a born-again Christian who believes in the Bible and doesn’t believe in evolution. He’s a teetotaler. But I have to say, at nearly 93 my father is also […]
by David Anderson 19 Comments Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Change, Faithfulness, Family, Forgiveness, Grace, Love
Why does the Queen always carry that purse? A friend was telling me at brunch on Sunday that he and his wife had been honored, on a recent trip to London, to be welcomed to Buckingham Palace. They were part of a larger church group. Ken said the Queen came in and worked the […]
by David Anderson 3 Comments Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Change, Faithfulness, Surrender
“No! I told him I wasn’t coming!” The woman answering her cell phone was talking way loud. I was five rows back on the train and the noise disrupted my conversation with Pam. “I don’t care—I’m not going!” Now the whole car was awkwardly silent, forcibly listening. A young man across the aisle from the […]
by David Anderson 7 Comments Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Change, Fear, Freedom
Dear Janet, Good to get your email, though of course I’m sorry that this is a rough time for you. Having to cut off a relationship that held such promise but that ended up being destructive—that’s hard to do. People like Craig are hard to cut off, right? They’re so charming. They promise so much, […]
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It was March 1964, months after the assassination of her husband, when Jacqueline Kennedy sat down with Arthur M. Schlesinger for a seven-part interview. The tapes of that interview had been sealed—until now. Reading an article in the newspaper, including excerpts from the interviews, I was taken by Jackie’s remarks on her husband’s religion, especially […]
by David Anderson 2 Comments Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Faith/Trust