We seem to be inherently double-minded. I find with all kinds of things that part of me thinks one way and is ready for action, but another part of me doesn’t cooperate. This could be characterized as a disagreement between higher and lower brains. My higher self knows the best action, but my lower self … Read more
The Christmas song Joy to the World offers a glimpse of how Jesus will reign when he returns. The last stanza goes: “He rules the world with truth and grace and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness…” It says we will be amazed and wonder as we witness his love. This time, … Read more
Jesus calls us to love God and also other people. How? It has nothing to do with infatuation and maybe little to do with emotion. Can this love be mostly an attitude? Can it be, to begin with, an acceptance of our common predicament as created earthly things? Other people, other animals, rocks, plants—we are … Read more
I am nirtog. In this reflection, I give blog readers a sense of my spiritual point of view. Even regarding ourselves, we must admit to a limited ability to assess comprehensively what we think and why, but we probably have the best chance of anybody. I claim to have aesthetic sensibility within a science and … Read more