The Freedom of Interiority
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -- C. G. Jung Our society on the whole is an extraverted culture. We look to the outside for wisdom, solutions, love, hope...
Numinous Experience: The Earth is Charged with God’s Grandeur
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” ― John Muir I woke up this morning thinking about our upcoming trip to Mammoth Lakes up in the High Sierras. “I’m going to a cathedral!” I thought with a mixture of anticipation and relief. For years now my family...
Live the Questions Now!
I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you...
The Healing Power of Imagination
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. --Simone Weil The human mind is a wonderful thing. What other mechanism can create something from nothing? By what other means can you, in an instant, transport yourself to another place or...
INTO THE DEPTHS
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self – to the mediating intellect – as to verge close to being beyond description. -- William Styron in Darkness Visible Depression is a word that has...
Train Your Spouse in the Way He (She) Should Go?
Train up [your spouse] in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 Over the past 10 years I have worked with countless individuals who are struggling with their marriages. Sometimes I see them together but most often I work...
Burning the Candle at Both Ends
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay The news of Whitney Houston’s recent death struck a chord with millions of people, perhaps most particularly those who...
Reflections on a New Year
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? --- every, every minute? -- Emily in "Our Town" In Stephen King's new book, 11/22/63, the main character finds a portal that takes him back in time to the late 1950's. There he encounters a world that...
Growing in Relationships
Most of us were raised to think that relationships just happen and that somehow they just take care of themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth! Then again, some of us have heard that good relationships take work. This is a bit more accurate but that...
The Freedom of Forgiveness
Divorce brings with it a host of emotions -- anger, shame, hurt, sadness, betrayal. I think the last one is perhaps one of the most difficult feelings to process. When get married we stand before God and others, pledging our love to one another, we enter into a...