Change is difficult. We fear moving forward. We fear remaining stuck where we are. It’s fear all the way around. Working with fear remains a vital part of being alive. As a boy, I was a very good swimmer. When I was nine or ten, I took my first deepwater test. It occurred Read more…
Do you remember the Biblical story of Jacob wrestling with the angel? Jacob manipulated his brother Esau to sell his inheritance for a bowl of stew and then stole his father’s blessing. Twenty years later, on the eve of being reunited with Esau, a strange being, an angel or perhaps Read more…
Each of us knows the fear of death. Our lives are like blades of grass, wrote the Psalmist; whose other side is salvation/whose meaning none of us will ever know, wrote the poet Mary Oliver. Life is fragile and fleeting, while death is final and enduring. But what if the fear Read more…