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My Night in Sing Sing

March 1, 2014 by David Anderson 6 Comments

On Monday night I sat in the most exciting, powerful and inspirational circle I’ve experienced in years. I was conversing with convicted felons at Sing Sing prison—homicide, armed robbery, drug dealing. We sat in a classroom, maybe fifteen of us from the “outside” and ten inmates. We had come to learn more about a program […]

Filed Under: Change, Community, Freedom

Of Groundhogs and Light

February 2, 2014 by David Anderson 5 Comments

(We’ll get to Gobbler’s Knob in a moment.) Today—February 2nd—is a big turning point. It’s a great cross-quarter day, midway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. In ancient, agricultural societies it was regarded as the beginning of spring—the time for first turning the soil in preparation for March planting. There were prayers and […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Awareness, Change, Letting Go, LIght, Surrender

Fleeing Dread or Seeking Love

September 13, 2013 by David Anderson 1 Comment

At thirteen I learned to drive a car with an automatic transmission, but as a teen-aged, car-crazed boy there were a lot of cars—some hot—that were off-limits to those who could not work a standard transmission. I was determined to learn. My coolness was at stake. Our one car was an automatic, but my grandfather, […]

Filed Under: Change, Faith in Action, Fear, Love, Uncategorized, Vocation/ Calling

“To Accept the Things I Cannot Change…”

July 15, 2013 by David Anderson 5 Comments

The single challenge of life is change. We don’t like it, yet we know it is the only constant. Every day we get up and . . . things have changed. Nothing is where we left it last night. Not the kids, not the dog, not the roses in the garden. Everything we had just […]

Filed Under: Change, Faith/Trust, Happiness, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it

The Cat Who Sat on a Hot Stove Lid

June 24, 2013 by David Anderson 4 Comments

I don’t know if it’s true, but someone once told me that domesticated birds can be trained to sit by an open window—and not fly away. You put their perch next to an open window, but you tie one foot to the perch, so that when the bird attempts to fly out the window, it […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Choice, Faith/Trust, Fear, Freedom, Happiness

Second Marriage (Same People)

June 3, 2013 by David Anderson 20 Comments

Today is my 35th wedding anniversary. Pam and I were married June 3rd 1978 in Panama City, Florida. After 35 years, my marriage is blessedly the most important thing in my life. But it wasn’t always. We all marry a fantasy, an idealized image of the perfect husband or wife. A few months or years […]

Filed Under: Change, Conflict, Family, Forgiveness, Grace, Happiness, Love, Surrender

A Church Comes Down

February 9, 2013 by David Anderson 18 Comments

I found out today that the church I grew up in had been torn down. Calvary Baptist Church in Yankton, South Dakota. My cousin Tom, who still lives in South Dakota, sent a link to a story in the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan—or the P&D, as we called it, the newspaper I used to […]

Filed Under: Change, Community, Family, Love

Trusting God When Things are Changing

February 4, 2013 by David Anderson 6 Comments

“I have a great quote for you!” It was my friend Judy—the first thing she said to me when we met on a retreat this weekend. “Let me have it.” I said. “Change is inevitable,” Judy said, “growth is optional.” I nodded and we both smiled. I saw a tee shirt once that said, “Change is […]

Filed Under: Change, Faith/Trust, Faithfulness, Happiness, Letting Go, Reality--trusting it, Surrender

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