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Seven Thousand Miracles

June 8, 2023 by David Anderson 6 Comments

Vincent Donovan, a missionary in Africa, wrote of working with the Masai many years ago. He said the people were all sitting very respectfully listening to him as the priest, and he was teaching them about the Seven Sacraments of the Church. He described a sacrament as a physical encounter or event in which you […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Awe, Beauty, Discernment, Mystery, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing

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

Dog Years

January 26, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

Our granddog is sick. Almost a year ago, Eloise was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and underwent radiation therapy. The tumor shrank and her seizures could be controlled with medication. My daughter Sharon and her husband Anthony hoped their beloved French Bulldog, now seven years old, might make it to eight or nine. This […]

Filed Under: Death/Dying, Healing, Mystery, Suffering

The God I Don’t Believe In

May 20, 2014 by David Anderson 9 Comments

Last week I heard Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, the writer and scholar of the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, interviewed on the radio. He told a story that I haven’t forgotten. Rabbi Kushner was invited to a dinner for a class of young people preparing for their bar or bat mitzvah. Classes completed, they had come […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Belief, Faith/Trust, Love, Mystery

“What kind of bread is this?”

March 31, 2014 by David Anderson 7 Comments

Giving people communion—as any clergy will tell you—is one of the blessed gifts of ministry. People come to receive the life of God in all of their humanness. They stream to the altar, the hopeful and harried, the world-beaters and the unemployed, the believers and skeptics alike. I walk down the line and here are […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Mystery, Seeing

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