Volume 1 Number 30 |
The Editor's Desk: | August 1 - August 7, 2010 |
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Our mission is to present spiritual responses to some of the greatest challenges that life has to offer: events like death of a loved one, breakup of a relationship, serious accident or illness, crises of identity, recovery from addiction, loss of job or career, retirement, and other life-altering events. |
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You’re wearing the clothes to be glad! It’s as simple as that. You’re in control, be happy! Is it really that simple? Like an on/off switch that I can flick up or down whenever I want or need to? If only life were that easy! [Continue]
Walking near my home, I was praying. I could feel myself caught in fear. A deep place of fear, and pain of abandonment by God had surfaced. This feeling kept me spinning for a few weeks. [Continue]
Butch Hovis continues his exposition of Saint John of the Cross’ Dark Night of the Soul, focusing on the roots of anger and how this translates into contemporary applications for business and service. [Continue]
If you're at midlife, or if you're facing seemingly-catastrophic loss, if you're feeling lost, purposeless, directionless and completely bereft of any semblance of spirituality, rejoice! Your spiritual awakening is here! [Continue]
Butch Hovis backtracks in order to go forward! Addressing John of the Cross’ writing on LUST, he makes a case for applying 16th century Spanish mystical reflections to 21st century life. A challenge to take stock of what is reasonable.... [Continue]
Every day I get that reminder from my dog Fred. Fred says, wait, by putting on his brakes. He’s saying wait, cause there’s a really great smell on that wall, signpost, other dog or fence. I in turn stop, allow Fred to do his business (I really think he’s reading doggie code that tells him how strong of a scent he needs to leave for the next [Continue]
The 'Grandma' and 'Grandpa' images from the last century are gone for good. In their place, we're discovering that we 'Boomers can become vibrant, 'sexy sexagenarians,' taking the intimacy and passion we experience in our relationships to levels we might never have expected. The recipe for relationship success during (and after) midlife is [Continue]
This simple phrase may be one of the overused, underutilized and confused phrases being thrown around. And, it is one of the most powerful – and difficult—to truly embrace in our lives. In fact, there is a lot of societal pressure to NOT go with the FLOW. After all, it requires total trust and faith to engage the higher forces of FLOW. [Continue]
This week Rev. Jack Abel takes a somewhat lighthearted look at our publication’s title, focusing especially on the idea of crisis. What is a crisis? How does one know one is in a moment of crisis, and what is there to learn from other crises about this juncture in human existence, and its end? [Continue]
It's really easy to confuse life circumstances with who we are. The events of my life have little to do with who I am, and yet, I allow events to control how I feel about myself and about life. That sucks! Thank God I can see this distinction. [Continue]
