Honesty, not a tax but an investment in peace
How can doing the wrong thing seem like it’s the right thing? That’s the question I faced as I prepared my taxes.I started my own business a year before doing odd jobs ranging from organizing and c...
How I was saved from a bad interview
I thought I was well prepared, but the muddled words that came out of my mouth in the radio studio didn’t sound like it!I had given hundreds of talks on spirituality and healing across North Americ...
Yielding to aforetime (after footwashing)
Forgiveness doesn't perpetuate ignorance, carelessness or cold disdain.It is the foundation on which these dissolve. This forgiveness is what was given aforetime. It empowers every first step, eve...
I'm loved – married or not
The sunset's golden light paints the face of the woman I am going to marry. She’s asleep in the passenger seat. We’re headed to visit my family for the weekend.In this moment, driving into the suns...
Moving house with God by my side
The garage ceiling had collapsed. The foundations were sinking. The house I shared with my 91-year-old mother in Brisbane, Australia, was slowly falling apart. I couldn’t put it off any longer. I f...
Finding home right where we are
There was something different about him. Not his appearance—foreign students aren’t uncommon in our Kentucky college town. But something drew me to him. He looked so unhappy.His bike had a flat tir...
In God's employ
You are the Infinite Maker of Your spiritual creation, Source of the smallest to largest manifestation of Love.And all are employed by You. Then… With each move I make, With each breath ...
Prayer in the peace of the grove
There's a park I love to visit in my Canadian hometown of Victoria. It has a pond where children feed the ducks. There are trees where great blue herons nest in the spring. There's a petting zoo, a...
A Magdalene's prayer for her practice
Can it possibly be true that I have been loved enough to love othersWith a generous, unobstructed heart? This Christ-man who has commanded my attention warrants my allegiance because in himI find...
Stranded, or always in God's presence?
We were far from home, in the middle of nowhere, caught in a snowstorm. Stranded. The trip to Montana from Colorado had been great—sunshine the whole way. The trip home, however, was turning out a...