Income, debt and the practice

January 28, 2006 | 1 comment

A budding Christian Science practitioner asked me for some spiritual insight on how to meet her financial needs when faced with little income. I shared a few ground rules and truths I’ve applied myself, or learned through experience, over the

Spiritual resiliency

January 26, 2006 | No comments yet

I was walking through the snow-laden forest in the Blue Mountains this weekend. Many trees were bent over with heavy mounds of snow heaped on their branches. I felt sorry for the burdened evergreens, until I remembered the freedom that

Helping others has its reward

January 24, 2006 | No comments yet

John Macartney was skiing down Crystal Mountain in Washington State when he saw two legs sticking out of the snow near a tree off to the side of the ski run. He knew that when a skier falls into a

No sleepy retirement

January 22, 2006 | 1 comment

A woman told me that she had grown sleepy during the day ever since she retired from a long career in her field. I told her she could physically retire from her old profession, but she shouldn’t mentally retire from

Iran’s nuclear ambitions

January 17, 2006 | 1 comment

Iran’s leadership appears determined to develop nuclear capacity that critics say can be used to build atomic bombs. Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has publicly voiced hatred and detest toward Israel. Most of us are not in leadership positions to decide appropriate