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The Disobedient Guide Dog

July 1, 2013 by David Anderson 3 Comments

First you must learn to obey. Good. Then, it is just as important to learn to disobey. We teach children to obey their parents and all the other authority figures in their lives. This is critical, not just for their moral development, but for their basic safety and well being. When I was a young […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, authority, Family, Identity, Vocation/ Calling

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

Giving Birth in Hospice

May 7, 2013 by David Anderson 15 Comments

Pam spent last night sleeping in a chair beside her father’s hospital bed. He is dying. “It is like sitting with someone who is giving birth,” Pam said. “It’s hard work. It can be frightening—you need strength and courage to undergo this suffering, this ordeal, to bring a life to birth. And,” she said, “it’s […]

Filed Under: Death/Dying, Family, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it, Waiting

A Good and Perfect Gift

April 15, 2013 by David Anderson 7 Comments

What happens to you when, a few minutes after delivering your baby, you are told there is something wrong? Yesterday I heard Amy Julia Becker speak. She had lived that scenario. Her husband, who had spoken with the doctor, came back into her hospital room, his eyes glazed with tears. “They say our baby may […]

Filed Under: Family, Fear, Grace, Identity, Love

The Last Family Fight

March 11, 2013 by David Anderson 5 Comments

We just don’t argue anymore. I spent the weekend with my six brothers and sisters—along with all our husbands and wives, except for my brother-in-law Larry in Kuwait. We were in Knoxville for a late celebration of my father’s 94th birthday. And we didn’t argue or fight. Which is saying something in this family. Twenty […]

Filed Under: Conflict, Family, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Love

Twenty Four Tributes: For My Father Turning 94

February 25, 2013 by David Anderson 9 Comments

On Saturday my father, Gerald Anderson, turned 94. My brother wrote a birthday email and copied all seven of us siblings and all the in-laws. He ended by listing five gifts that Dad has passed on to all of us. 1. That you know yourself to be loved by God, 2. That you have lived in […]

Filed Under: Character, Daily Practice, Faithfulness, Family, Grace, Gratitude, Happiness

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

Hope is not Optimism

December 17, 2012 by David Anderson 4 Comments

This is Advent, the season of hope. Yet our hopes were dashed on Friday. Many people haven’t felt like this since 9/11. The tragedy that struck that elementary school in Newtown makes us wonder. Is there any hope? Any hope for the kingdom? For a world where the lion and the lamb lie down together? Hope, the great […]

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Family, Healing, Hope

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