Posts Tagged ‘spiritual awakening’
The Myth of Love: More Misguided Counsel From a Confused Culture
Like other mixed messages from our culture, we get schizophrenic signs as it relates to love, specifically romantic love. On one hand we’re told to chart our own course and be our own person even if we have to go it alone. Don’t let anyone or even society stop you from pursuing your dreams or…
Read MoreSay My Name: Reflections on Fear, Death and Love
It has been said, “A person dies twice: once when they take their final breath, and later, the last time their name is spoken.” This quote has been attributed to everyone from Banksy to Hemingway to someone only known as anonymity. The latter being an ironic example of irony that lends integrity to this insight. As…
Read MoreTruth, Love and the False Value of Relativity
Growing up, I was told to never discuss politics or religion with someone I had no relationship with; and even if I did have a relationship with said person, to tread carefully. In many ways, this was wise advice. Both realms, reflect our core beliefs and values (or perceptions) about what we believe is right…
Read MoreUnlearning the Money Trap in My Second Life
What was once a planned break to write my memoir has since become my unplanned retirement from pharmaceutical marketing. My unexpected life’s career when I expected my life’s career would be something else entirely. At one point it was ministry, then teaching, and then looking for any job to pay back my student loans. Taking…
Read MorePolitics as Faith or Faith in Politics: Why You Cannot Serve Two Kingdoms
There was a time in my life when my ultimate loyalty, my sense of truth, and my definition of right and wrong existed in and with the institutions of this world; particularly our government. Naively believing that the politicians I elect and the bureaucracy I fund through my hard work would do no harm to…
Read MoreThe Empty Tomb Filled with Love
Countless stories have been written about the miracle and marvel of Easter. An act of love beyond all acts of love. The single most important event in the life of Jesus and the single most important event in all of human history. Without this act of love, mercy, grace and generosity, Christianity is nothing more…
Read MoreBroken but Healing
I am a broken man. My spirit shattered and my soul suffering when I began to question everything I was taught in my youth and came to believe as an adult. Like pulling the proverbial loose thread, my whole world would unravel. Collapsing like a house of cards built on sand. Discovering and determining that…
Read MoreLiving in Age of Material Abundance and Spiritual Poverty
Never before in the history of the world, has a culture produced so much wealth and so much leisure time like we have in the US. And yet, we have only get sicker; physically, mentally and spiritually. Ourselves and our children. Materialism is the new religion of our age. The belief that humans are solely…
Read MoreHow My Memoir Happened
Authors note. As I begin the publishing process to bring my memoir to market (fall 2025), this seemed like an ideal time to share some of the stories about how this occurred. It was another bright blue, cloud barren summer day in Vegas. The Mojave desert propelling its furnace of hot dry winds across the…
Read MoreMaking Time About Something More Than Space
Like everything in Creation, God created us; you and me. Creatures crafted from clay and conceived through Divine breath. God commanding the nothingness to become somethingness. Life as we know it and a life that will be made known. Planted in paradise, humanity found itself amidst the Divine. A rupture in the relationship when man…
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