The Question To Ask For Hard Decisions

When I was at a retreat in the middle of studying for my Masters of Divinity, our teachers were taking us through a practice of discerning truth in our heart, and I couldn’t get anything. Nuthin’. Zero. Zilch. Empty-heart. Thankfully I have enough awareness and experience to know why: I was deeply exhausted. It was […]

Why It’s Hard For Me to Be Cheerful Sometimes

I realize that I get caught in a trap: a trap of being reactionary. There is so much pop-spirituality-business stuff out there promoting a “feel happy be successful” agenda that I realize I sometimes take the opposite stance. I tend to make radical and off-putting statements like: Neediness is your doorway to abundance, and poverty […]