by David Hayward | Nov 19, 2018 | David's Letters, I'm okay
You’re Not a Failure! Recently, Lisa and I met a good old friend who used to go to my last church that I was the pastor of, and we had a little chat. I was telling her about that dream I had about my snowblower that I wrote to you guys last week. In a nutshell,...
by David Hayward | Oct 2, 2017 | David's Letters, I'm confused
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...
by David Hayward | Feb 5, 2017 | David's Letters, I'm angry, I'm sad
I do not like it when people mock other religions. I also do not like it when people mock the stages of faith that I have journeyed through. I’m not sure how this happened, but somewhere along the way I learned that it was not only negligent and shortsighted to...
by David Hayward | Feb 7, 2014 | Feelings
This is a photo of the frozen river in front of my house today. It’s a bright day. There are many degrees of white. If it was overcast and someone asked me what the color #1 was, I would have said white. If it was a bright day and there were no snowmobile trails...
by David Hayward | Jan 22, 2014 | Daily Toast, Spirituality
Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could suddenly live our lives with no anxiety at all and no ambiguity? We would fulfill the preachers’ cry that demands we must not worry and that we should not doubt, that we should always be at peace and clear on what is true...
