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Why Am I My Own Worst Judge?

March 16, 2023 by David Anderson 6 Comments

Some years ago, the Dove soap company created a video. At the time, a woman sent me the link because it seemed a profound demonstration of self-judgment. The video shows a forensic sketch artist, asked to draw a series of women based solely on their descriptions. Seated at a drafting table with his back to […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Happiness, Identity, Lent, Letting Go, Seeing

Beware: Inner Peace

December 8, 2014 by David Anderson 6 Comments

I received this alert, and it’s the kind of warning that–in this Advent season–I am delighted to pass on. Symptoms of Inner Peace Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Breathing, Daily Practice, Faith/Trust, Fear, Forgiveness, Happiness, Letting Go, Love, Now/ the Present, Patience, Surrender, Uncategorized

Choose to Love Now

November 3, 2014 by David Anderson 13 Comments

  Pam and I spent the weekend with our parents: Pam with her mother and I with my father. Her father died only a year ago or so, and my mother is gone fifteen years now. Both our parents—vigorous in their old age—have suffered setbacks in the last six months. Pam’s mother is on hospice, […]

Filed Under: Conflict, Family, Forgiveness, Happiness, Healing, Letting Go, Love, Now/ the Present

Never Too Late to Love

September 29, 2014 by David Anderson 6 Comments

“It is never too late to love.” That’s what a good friend told me this week. I was telling her of a kind of break-through: I had learned to love someone a little better, to forgive someone (and pardon myself as well). It felt good, but almost immediately I thought, “I wish I had come […]

Filed Under: Death/Dying, Forgiveness, Happiness, Letting Go, Love, Mercy, Now/ the Present

Two Words and a Wedding

August 16, 2014 by David Anderson 10 Comments

  Tonight I will officiate at my second wedding in a week. I like weddings, but I always struggle with what to say. At baptisms, the parents in the front pews listen even though they’re often tussling with older siblings of the one in white. At funerals, people listen intently. Their stare—both skeptical and desperate—says: […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Conflict, Daily Practice, Family, Forgiveness, Happiness, Intimacy, Letting Go, Love, Mercy, Reality--trusting it, Suffering, Surrender

You Don’t Have to Be Good

May 12, 2014 by David Anderson 3 Comments

The things people tell a minister after church. . . . Yesterday a woman I did not know spoke to me after church—she was there for a baptism. I heard about the church of her childhood, where “salvation” was attained by refraining from smoking and drinking and dancing and cursing. It was a rigid theology […]

Filed Under: Belief, Faith/Trust, Forgiveness, Grace, Love, Mercy

Abba Moses and the Leaky Jug

October 28, 2013 by David Anderson 2 Comments

Yesterday I sat in the second pew at St. Stephen’s church in Richmond, Virginia. There to speak later in the morning, I was worshiping at the 9 o’clock Eucharist. My friend Gary Jones preached—masterfully—on that well-known parable from Luke. Two men go up to the temple to pray, a Pharisee and a tax collector. The […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Forgiveness, Grace, Uncategorized

“Obsessed” With Abortion, Homosexuality and Birth Control

September 23, 2013 by David Anderson 5 Comments

The church is “obsessed” with abortion, homosexuality and birth control. That comment by Pope Francis a few days ago made global headlines. It’s no mistake that all three bugbears are physical, of the body, sexual. Little-mind religion seizes on the carnal sins and makes avoiding them a cardinal virtue. That’s because it is mostly preoccupied […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Awareness, Forgiveness, Grace, Mercy

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