Aviary
My wife has become quite the bird lady. With the running fountain and canopy of trees that came with the house we moved into last year and the little cloth bags full of seed and hummingbird juice she buys and places
Leaving Jesus
So I get on my iCalendar to do some scheduling for Easter week, and there’s no Easter. April Fool’s Day is there, which falls on the same day, but no Easter, no Good Friday. I read later that Apple has
God’s Shade
Growing up Catholic, I would walk into the confessional and kneel in the dark waiting for the warm rub of wood on wood as the lattice window slid open. My cue. Bless me father for I have sinned… As a grade
Furnace
Just now in the dark, coming out of silent prayer. First light brightening the windows. Wife and boys sleeping. Dogs sleeping. Cat sleeping. Very quiet. Furnace blows on and the warm breath and dark rushing are all at once comforting.
Chimps and Scientists
Where to keep our eyes focused as we move through life? Ahead? To the sides? A journal entry explores. A clip from the podcast A Gradual Pentecost
One World at a Time
Dave Brisbin | 4.8.18 What world, what life should be the focus of our spiritual awareness? The ancient Hebrews who wrote our Judeo-Christian scripture have a very clear answer. A short clip from the podcast "I Bless the Rains."
I Can’t Make You Love Me
Have you ever had your heart broken or dared to love someone with no guarantee of being loved back? What did God risk by daring to give us the ultimate gift--the gift of choice? Are you ready to look at
Proof of Love
Love isn’t love if not freely chosen. And no love is perfect until it sets the beloved perfectly free. So the ability to choose not-love is absolutely necessary for love to exist… …which means the evil done in the world
Intersection
Yesterday I was driving a friend from hospital to a sober home in Huntington Beach following the map-voice from my phone and so immersed in conversation that I only suddenly became aware of the tall building now filling my windshield.
A Perfect Song
Some songs are pretty much perfect. Melody, lyric, arrangement, tempo, voice and instruments merge: no element drawing attention to itself, creating an immersion, an environment for an experience…an experience that writer, composer, and performer all grasped intimately enough to convey to
