Reading Richard Rohr again this morning and came across this gem: "Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody." Oh my, is that good! Reminds me of a story Jesus told in the Gospel of Luke. Luke writes: [Jesus] told his next story to some who were  complacently pleased with themselves over their moral performance […]

I have been thinking a lot lately about my own, very real, limitations. I have a certain level of capacity. After 51 years, I have a pretty good sense of when that capacity is tapped out. Often, that occurs before I wished it did. I used to think I should do more.  Rest less and […]

I am halfway through Richard Rohr's booking "Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life." Here are three things I read yesterday that caused me to put the book down and ponder for a considerable amount of time: "What passes for morality or spirituality in the vast majority of people's lives is the […]

Chuck and I have a small, walk-in closet.  Nothing fancy; nothing you would see featured on HGTV. And for the last 17 years, we were using two dressers in that closet, dressers that had originally belonged to our now young-adult children. The bottoms of several of the drawers would fall out every time we opened […]

One more post related to "my dad turned 80 ..." One of the gifts we gave him was  a letter from each of his grandchildren recounting some of their favorite memories of life with "Grandpa Dave." Here's what I noticed: None of the memories had to do with money. None had to do with a […]

I still think that one of humanity's greatest flaws (and of course, my own) is our inability to comprehend, or even imagine, the sheer goodness of God. Because we cannot comprehend God's goodness, we live out of a pardigm that can be  incredibly destructive. William Law said, "If your concept of God is radically false, […]