by David Anderson
I spoke with three people on Sunday whose life-as-usual had dead-ended. For two it was a life-altering illness. For the other it was a lost job. It was a typical Sunday, really—I suppose I stopped and talked to twenty people between three services, a parish picnic and a hospital call. These days, world unsettled as […]
by David Anderson 2 Comments Filed Under: Change, Faith/Trust, Fear, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it, Vocation/ Calling
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 […]
by David Anderson 4 Comments Filed Under: Change, Faith/Trust, Grace, Happiness, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it, Surrender
In 1988 Bill Moyers sat down with scholar Joseph Campbell to talk about mythology and religion. In one of the PBS interviews Campbell tells the story of two police officers in Hawaii. They were driving one afternoon near the Pali, a place where the trade winds from the north come rushing through a great ridge of […]
by David Anderson 4 Comments Filed Under: Now/ the Present, Seeing
We all start out with a training-wheels god. It’s always a very much bigger version of mother and father (with all the bane and blessing that entails). It’s a god who looks after you but also looks in on you—so you’d better be good. As we grow older we keep riding the training-wheels god. Our […]
by David Anderson 2 Comments Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Faith/Trust, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it, Seeing
Tony Campolo is a writer, teacher and preacher, a white man who belongs to a black church in West Philadelphia. Mt. Carmel Baptist, he says, is “the closest thing to heaven this side of the pearly gates.” Campolo tells the story of a little preaching competition he had with the old black pastor at Mt.Carmel […]
by David Anderson 2 Comments Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Happiness, Now/ the Present
Once you have lived a few years, you understand how precious is time. When you were quite young you knew there were certain things that needed your attention, needed to be done, but you were too busy. Besides, there was always tomorrow. If you needed to lose a few pounds or cut back on your […]
by David Anderson 4 Comments Filed Under: Change, Faith in Action, Now/ the Present
Everybody is chasing some prize. What’s yours? What are you chasing? It’s worth sitting for a moment and thinking about that, because most people live their whole lives feverishly pursuing something they’ve never actually named. Feverish pursuits, by their very nature, preclude reflection. It’s all happening so fast we don’t have time—who has time to […]
by David Anderson 6 Comments Filed Under: Happiness, Now/ the Present, Seeing, Vocation/ Calling
When I read this I was intrigued. “In Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany, some nursing homes build false, imitation bus stops for their patients who are suffering from dementia. Some of these bus stops are even fitted with outdated advertisements and timetables—30 years outdated. The patients will sit at the bus stop waiting […]
by David Anderson 3 Comments Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Happiness, Now/ the Present, Reality--trusting it, Seeing