I think back on the times when I felt trapped. My freedom came immediately upon realizing that I wasn’t trapped at all, but only afraid of the consequences of acting upon my freedom. Fear. That’s the biggest obstacle to almost everything. Now, it wasn’t that the...
Free to be Creative!
Good day my friends. I want to tell you about a new creative venture I’m initiating. For years now some people have been encouraging me to teach other creative types how to do what I do… how I seem to just constantly come up with new ideas, create prolifically, and...
Experiencing a Full Inner Life
We can swim in the Atlantic Ocean here but it’s quite cold. There are at least 3 kinds of people: Those who stick their toes in and run back to their towels. Those who go in just below their groin and hang out there.’ Those who go in all the way over their heads to...
The Cradle and the Fairy Tales
You have the cradle. You have the fairy tales. You have the church. You have the stories it wants you to believe. For some, they leave the cradle but keep the fairy tales. For some, they throw out the fairy tales but stay in the cradle. For others, they leave both...
Anxiety Tries to Steal the Moments
Lisa and I and our three grown children had about a week together. So we decided to go for a vacation. We did the Cabot Trail of Cape Breton. Absolutely stunning! We enjoyed incredible views, waterfalls, camping, hikes, good food and drinks, but mostly the love of...
Is it Okay to Grieve the Loss of Things that Weren’t Good for Us?
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...
How Triggers Can Sabotage the Joy of Living
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...
The Tragic Outcomes Religion May Induce
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....
Get help!
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...
Growth is Growth
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...
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