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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In the daily course of our lives disagreements are bound to arise and oftentimes they can erupt into violent arguments where our mouths become lethal weapons, injuring or even destroying a relationship. [Continue]
Prostate cancer or heart disease, like aging, is more than a physical problem. To borrow from Mark Twain, It's an issue of mind over matter: If you don't mind, it doesn't matter! [Continue]
“Easy does it” is a recovery slogan. A strange statement since recovery folks also warn against an “easier softer way”! So what’s a person to do in reading some of the more chilling ascetical writings of St. John of the Cross as we did about “imperfections”? Butch Hovis picks up the theme of LOVE as a way of coming to terms with the [Continue]
In our journey to examine how to clean up the wreckage left behind by the poor choices we have made in life, we come to a turning point. We've acknowledged that we've done wrong and we've expressed our sorrow for it. Now comes the hard part: what are you going to do about it? [Continue]
Whenever friends or loved ones kindly suggest we relax – take a deep breath or unwind for a few days – we most always protest. Slowing down takes too much time. A generation of doers, we have dedicated our lives to making things happen. We feel, quite rightly, that there is nothin’ we can’t do – except, of course, doing nothing.* [Continue]
Butch Hovis picks up on his theme of mindfulness meditation, the teachings of St. John of the Cross, and just plain daily life experience. [Continue]
Last year, during a presentation, I spoke of the phenomenon of coming into or receiving your “medicine.” I had recently experienced and witnessed some profound things that are still changing me and gifting me with new “medicine.” [Continue]
Men, like women, have a right and an obligation to ourselves to know what’s happening inside our bodies. This is a moral and spiritual obligation, since the body and soul are inseparable, at least while we’re still alive. [Continue]
Every once in a while, we recognize that what we've chosen to say or do hasn't worked out the way we wanted it to. We made a bad choice and the results are there, staring us in the face. Almost before we know it, out pops an "I'm sorry!" What does an apology mean? What SHOULD our apologies mean? Why are there so many of them, and why do they so [Continue]
