Category: spirituality

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

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

Do you have time for God?

September 4, 2006 | 5 comments

Some people believe they don’t have time for God. But is this true? God is all good. God is all love. God is all wealth. God is all health. God is all happiness. God is all true success. If we

Ever tempted to criticize?

September 1, 2006 | 5 comments

Are you ever tempted to criticize other people, point out their faults, dwell on their shortcomings and grumble about their disposition? Every person is like a window into a unique view of God. As the windows on our house are

Funeral notices

August 29, 2006 | 1 comment

Have you ever questioned the phrasing “called to the arms of the Lord” when it is written in obituaries? It troubles me when I read the words for they imply it is God’s will for a person to die, which