Food for Spiritual Thought: Rain
Picture the scene: rain falling. Over the course of several hours, a couple of inches of rain come down. The ground gets wet, maybe even soaked. It’s a scene that…
Food for Spiritual Thought: All About the Journey
I will confess to something that I do sometimes: when I read a novel, especially a long one, I will sometimes read through the first 50 pages or so, to…
Food for Spiritual Thought: Do Over
People who play golf sometimes take a “mulligan.” That’s a fancy word for a do-over. If they make a bad shot, they can simply ignore what just happened and try once again, as if their mistake never…
Food for Spiritual Thought: Mirrors
I think one of the greatest inventions in our human experience is the mirror. Before somebody came up with that piece of reflective material, people could not truly see themselves.…
Food for Spiritual Thought: Change
A few years ago, there was an advertising campaign that had an important-sounding slogan: “This Changes Everything!” That’s an ambitious thing for an advertisement to say. What a bold claim,…
Holy Days in October
As we make our way through this time of pandemic-related restrictions and isolation, we need to take time and remember that we human beings are social animals; we are meant…