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Just Drop It

January 12, 2023 by David Anderson 10 Comments

Everybody talks about “letting go.” Then why don’t we? In October a delivery truck hit the stone wall at the entrance to our driveway, doing modest damage. For months I’ve been calling the company owner to respond to the repair estimate he requested. Every time I call, the receptionist says Ricky is out, but will […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Choice, Daily Practice, Freedom, Happiness, Healing, Letting Go, Now/ the Present

Fear of Falling

April 14, 2015 by David Anderson 4 Comments

My father was afraid to fall. With good reason: he is 96 years old. Almost a year ago his blood pressure was so low he got dizzy and collapsed. Luckily he wasn’t injured, but he got it in his head—The most important thing is: Do Not Fall. Dad got a walker and wheelchair. He didn’t […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Faith in Action, Family, Fear, Freedom, Letting Go

Where is Your Life Taking You?

January 12, 2015 by David Anderson 11 Comments

Where is your life taking you? That’s the question I heard Parker Palmer asking. The Quaker wise man was being interviewed. “I had to ask myself,” he said, “where my life was taking me, rather than just where I was trying to take my life.” It’s important to try to take your life somewhere. Without […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Choice, creativity, Faith/Trust, Freedom, Grace, Happiness, Letting Go, Surrender, Vocation/ Calling

Fearless Weirdness

December 16, 2014 by David Anderson 6 Comments

I am a little weird. Aren’t you? I’ve been thinking about weirdness the last few weeks because, in the Christian season of Advent, John the Baptist has appeared. Every year he comes to haunt us with his strangeness—his animal skins for clothing, his grasshoppers for food, his cave for a home, his “repent” for a […]

Filed Under: authority, creativity, Freedom, Happiness, Repentance, Vocation/ Calling

Losing Weight

June 19, 2014 by David Anderson 7 Comments

I’m grateful for today’s guest post from my wife, Pam Anderson, who, along with my two daughters, blogs at threemanycooks.com.   David and I have lived in Darien for eleven years now—the same amount of time we were in Bucks County before moving back here. Last winter I suggested to David that, come spring, maybe […]

Filed Under: Abundance, Awareness, Freedom, Gratitude, Happiness, Letting Go, Uncategorized

Move On

June 3, 2014 by David Anderson 11 Comments

The stories people tell at funerals. We were burying Christine, a woman who would soon have been ninety. A good friend, Donna, remembered how she complained and whined to Christine about some recent changes in church worship, and after a few weeks of this Christine just said, “Get over it. Move on.” Donna was stunned: […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Death/Dying, Faith/Trust, Freedom, Grace, Happiness, Letting Go, Suffering

Life is a Ride

May 27, 2014 by David Anderson 5 Comments

Riding a hot air balloon is probably about as dangerous as riding a Ferris wheel, but it didn’t feel that way on Saturday when I climbed into a basket and the thing took off. As the massive balloon inflated, it took the pilot, Stan, and three men on the ground to keep it under control. […]

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Fear, Freedom, Happiness, Letting Go, Surrender

The Empty Boat

March 18, 2014 by David Anderson 8 Comments

A man is having an enjoyable boat ride on a river. It is dusk. The man looks up to see another boat coming down the river toward him, and his first thought is how nice it is that someone else is out enjoying the river and the beauty of a summer’s evening. Then he realizes […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Conflict, Fear, Freedom, Happiness, Reality--trusting it, Surrender

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