Month: September 2006

Are you or God doing the talking?

September 15, 2006 | 2 comments

Found an excellent piece by Linda Douty on silencing all the noise in our head that prevents us from hearing the voice of God. She points out that external commotion is only one distraction to spiritual communion with the divine.

Life not in a shell

September 14, 2006 | 1 comment

I’m going to conduct a funeral service today for a family in town whose patriarch passed on this weekend. In looking for words of comfort to assure my audience their beloved family member is still alive and well I thought

To do or to be?

September 14, 2006 | No comments yet

Trouble figuring out what to do today? Rick Warren, popular Christian preacher of Saddleback Church in California said it well in a recent interview.   When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed

"Peace begins with a smile"

September 13, 2006 | 2 comments

Mother Teresa said it, “Peace begins with a smile.” Think how much faster peace would come to the world if we approached everyone we met with a beaming glow of love! Peace not only to the world, but to our

Is bigger better?

September 12, 2006 | No comments yet

I just read the article, “We are what we eat,” by William Saletan in The Washington Post National Weekly, (which I can’t find on the Internet) that says “…thanks to low-cost high-fat food, obesity has become a global condition.” He