Christ is risen! "Take a vacation" he said. Sure, I'll take a vacation, but how? I'm busy. There are things that have to get done. People are depending on me. People expect me to be available to them. I HAVE TO work! Sound familiar? Yea, I know, we Type A personalities...
Christ is Risen! I have never found obedience particularly easy. In fact, being a head strong and prideful person, obedience has always made me uncomfortable and even fearful that I was "giving myself away." So, why is the notion of obedience so prominent in Orthodox Christian teachings and the wisdom of...
Christ is Risen! It's always a quandary for me: do I give anything to the guy holding the sign at the side of the road or will I just be supporting his bad choices? I guess it comes from my days as a police officer. There were too many times...
Christ is Risen! "You must be born again." Hey, where I'm from, that scripture is as well worn as John 3:16. In the '70's fad of the "Jesus Movement" (anybody who was paying attention at all to the culture of the early '70's knows this) being "born again" was all...
Christ is Risen! I remember watching him during the service. It had been a while since he'd been in Church and it was obvious. You see, this man wasn't just a friend, but a former clergyman. And his life had come off the rails and he found himself away from...
Christ is risen! "Now I recognize you!" He was an old friend from High School, and, for the life of me, I couldn't remember the face UNTIL he made that facial expression he use to make at lunchtime that made us fall on the floor laughing! I love moments like that...
Christ is risen! "We have an eye witness." Well, that got his attention. You see I was helping with an investigation with a recent spate of home burglaries in the area and we had caught a suspect in one of the neighborhoods where this was happening. This young man had...
Grief has a way of blinding us to everything else around us. I remember a particularly dark time in my own life where a dear and wise man warned me of making important decisions during this time of grief in my life. He knew what I couldn't in that...
Rushing headlong into a significant moment without proper preparation usually means you are going to miss the point! I can't tell you how many times I've looked back on a significant moment in my own life and said "Boy if I knew then what I know now!" Yep, hindsight's...
Most indifference and judgmentalism is rooted in fear, the fear that "I may not be right" or the fear that "I might be wrong" or even the fear that if I don't "defend this or that "truth" my whole world will come apart. But actions motivated by fear are so...
