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by David Anderson

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Struck By Awe

May 25, 2023 by David Anderson 11 Comments

A few days ago I walked to the rim of the Grand Canyon and looked over the edge. I felt a twinge in my stomach and my mouth dropped slightly open. My first visit—I don’t know what I was expecting. I had seen countless pictures, but of course no flat image, measured in inches, could […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Awe, Beauty, Grace, Nature/Creation, Seeing, Surrender, Transformation

AI Is Here. How Can I Know What’s Real?

May 4, 2023 by David Anderson 6 Comments

The headlines these days are splashed with scary stories of AI and the end of reality. Soon, the experts warn, no one will be able to tell what images or videos are real and what is generated by an all-knowing machine. The AI threat is merely the latest, most intense form of unreality to wash […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Daily Practice, Happiness, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it

When Memory Becomes Our Master

April 27, 2023 by David Anderson 8 Comments

Nobel winning psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman tells this story. A man is listening to a symphony, and it’s glorious. Three movements that build toward a brilliant climax. And then, just as the symphony is ending there is a horrid screeching sound. “It ruined the whole thing,” the man says. “Wiped out the whole experience.” […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Daily Practice, Happiness, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Reality--trusting it

Spring Fever

April 20, 2023 by David Anderson 6 Comments

Spring, the most yearned-for season, is also the most crazy-making. If you have a back yard or a garden, a kind of obsession can take over. You go to a nursery and imagine this in that little empty corner of the front garden, and that in the bed beside the potting shed. You don’t have […]

Filed Under: Awareness, creation, Letting Go, Mystery, Nature/Creation, Reality--trusting it

The Bible and The Black Hole

April 13, 2023 by David Anderson 7 Comments

There was an old saying, that people of faith should seek to understand their world with “the Bible in one hand, and the newspaper in the other.” For the last hundred years it’s been increasingly difficult to interpret the Bible, and now nobody trusts a newspaper. Maybe just as well. The idea that we could […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, authority, Awareness, Belief, Mystery, Nature/Creation, Reality--trusting it, Seeing

Who Is Hard For You To Love? (And How Might You Love Them Anyway?)

April 4, 2023 by David Anderson 3 Comments

“We love because God loved us first” (1 John 4:19). That truth is especially sublime when we hear it in Holy Week, when we watch with awe as someone embraces the whole world in love—and chooses to die rather than limiting or qualifying that love. If Jesus had recanted, if he had just admitted that, […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Choice, Daily Practice, Family, Grace, Healing, Lent, Love, Surrender, Transformation

What Are You Willing To Suffer For?

April 2, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

Palm Sunday—the Sunday of the Passion—is a good moment to stop and consider this question. When I tried to answer it, my first thoughts leapt to the heroic. What cross would I die on? What great cause could demand, as the hymn sings it, “my soul, my life, my all”? Once I recognized the ego […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Choice, Fear, Forgiveness, Grace, Lent, Letting Go, Reality--trusting it, Surrender, Transformation

Of All The Things You Have Done In Your Life, Which Is The One You Would Most Like To Undo?

March 30, 2023 by David Anderson 8 Comments

Plenty of people, especially near the end of life, claim they have no regrets. We ought to feel sorry for them. To regret something we’ve done is to acknowledge a higher principle than we were able to live up to. Regret can strengthen our moral character: Never again will I do something like that. If […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Character, Grace, Healing, Lent, Mercy

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