by David Hayward | Sep 17, 2017 | David's Letters, I'm sad
Is it okay to grieve the loss of something that wasn’t good? Of course. Any kind of grief must be respected. The feelings of sadness we might feel for losing anything at all is valid. Why is this? Partially, it’s because the things we lost were a part of a situation...
by David Hayward | Sep 10, 2017 | David's Letters, I'm confused
In the year 2000 Lisa bought me a Taylor acoustic guitar… a 210 CE cutaway with pickups, to be exact. The most beautiful sounding guitar I’ve ever played. I had been playing for years… songwriting and singing in the church for most of my life… performing as well as...
by David Hayward | Sep 3, 2017 | David's Letters, I'm sad
The other day a person on Facebook posted a video of the Pentecostal revivalist A. A. Allen healing a boy at a tent revival meeting. The boy had a rare disease that caused him to be born without bones in his legs. The video claims he healed the boy and he could walk....
by David Hayward | Aug 13, 2017 | David's Letters, I'm scared
This letter is short and sweet. My argument is simple: Get help! What I mean is: use whatever resources are available to you to invest in your own personal growth. When I got last year’s taxes done, I saw in black and white (and red) exactly how much I invested in my...
by David Hayward | Jul 26, 2017 | David's Letters, I'm okay
When I was visiting my family earlier this month it dawned on me that my personal growth and spiritual growth are not two separate things, but exactly the same thing. I grew up with my understanding of “God” being pretty much identical with my understanding of...