A light in the dark
Late night I got on my bike after an interreligious event in my city. There is nothing like a bike ride in summer and cycling at night is especially glorious. As I was driving underneath Beech and Linden trees with their lush greens hanging heavy and generous over the bike path I felt enveloped in […]
A kind world
Today is the day of kindness. It is God’s day. Today is God’s idea, sometimes I like to think: God’s invention. He owns the trademark for this day. It is God’s domain, power, and presence. And how is this day? For me, few adjectives describe better the nature a real day than a day of kindness. […]
A brave and startling truth
Forever humanity has been inspired and humbled by contemplating the universe – especially the night sky which reveals the full dimension of an infinite world. The Psalmist writes: “When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers– the moon and the stars you set in place– what are mere mortals that you […]
Lamb Power
When we start out on a quest, what God, pure Good, is, we will inevitably realize that we cannot find God in the world. The world has it all wrong and God has it all right. History says that breaking the ten commandments works for a while – before Christianity changes the rules of the […]
A complete eco system: Love
For almost two thousand years children, and women, and men have been comforted by and agreeing with Paul’s keen observation in his letter to the first Christian group in Rome: “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for […]
A scientific fact to be happy about
Love loves LifeandLife lives Love. No hate, nor endwill ever be, for Love loves LifeandLife lives Love, eternally. This truth will beFor you and meA law to demonstrate. And you will see with certainty, your life is loved eternally. And all you love,each friend, each thought,is always here,right where you are. For Love loves Lifeand Life lives Love. Eternally.
Against waiting
“Against waiting” is the exact English translation of the German word “Gegenwart” which means in English “present” or “presence” or “the now”. So “present” is being “against waiting”. I was traveling recently thousands of miles and this was a great opportunity to stay and be completely in the now. No stress, no pressure, no worry […]
Salt
Salt is such precious stuff. It is not food, but it is essential for food. It purifies, it preserves, it seasons. It is a crystalline mineral, found mainly in seawater as the main mineral ingredient. On our precious earth it is important for survival – being so essential it became not just an important article […]
God’s thoughts (for children and for everyone who once was a child)
God is thinking all the time. All the time – for eternity God is thinking thoughts and this will never stop. You can call these thoughts ideas, and they are powerful stuff, because God’s thoughts are what is real. They are everywhere. How do you know that thoughts are God’s thoughts? We think a lot […]
Beauty
There is something deeply nourishing, calming, peaceful, and satisfying about beauty. This is because beauty is divine. Beauty is of God, and anything beautiful is beautiful because it reflects God, the very core and essence of life. The miracle of being, the activity and enthusiasm of a creative Mind. The universe including us is radiant with […]
About effort
It is the prerogative of the spiritual view to see that everything from God’s perspective is very good. When something in the human experience isn’t good, it is not the end of it. It never ever happened that eternal Truth yielded to limited belief. God, Truth, has always the last word, because it was the […]
The dignity of your life
Nothing is more effective in our experience than to come up with a healthy and constructive way of how we approach life’s tasks. It is important to consider how we start and end a project, a task like teaching a class or cooking a meal, how we start and end a day. What is it […]
Doesn’t Matter!
My husband and I love cartoons – The Far Side by Gary Larson, French cartoons, German cartoons, cartoons of the New Yorker, the cartoons by André Franquin entitled “Gaston”. This cartoon is one of our collection. “Doesn’t matter” is being discovered. And when I see it, I see in it a century of Christian Science […]
What matters most?
“Nothing matters more than what I want being achieved today.” This is what we think often. Our work, tasks to process, harvest to gather, a paper to write, a healing to experience, a difficult relationship to mend, safety and comfort to be found in unfamiliar territory. But there are exceptions, there is something that matters […]
My favorite day
My favorite day is today. There is no better day, no more perfect day, no more harmonious day, no more relaxed day than today. I rise into the day. “Rise” is in sacred texts linked to light, leaving behind the darkness of the night. The morning song is nothing but the welcome of fresh opportunity […]
Support your local…anything!
When I did research and writing in Princeton, NJ, last summer, I saw a sign at a local coffee shop (hey, everybody needs a break now and then). It read: “Support your local anything!”In a world growing together – chances but also challenges being perceived as global -, the slogan to “think global and act […]