What we want is opposite of what we have.  We want world peace, but instead we are beset with world chaos.  We want the hungry fed, but millions go hungry and millions more die from that very hunger.  We want medical cures to the diseases that ravage lives, families and nations, but untold thousands perish hourly.  We want communities that are free … [Read more...]

We all create expectations.  But how often are our expectations a wholesale surrendering of ‘what could be’ to ‘what is?’  How often are they borne of a discouraged soul and a frightened heart that cannot see beyond the realities of the moment so as to envision a brighter reality standing at-the-ready in the next moment?  How many times have we … [Read more...]

Self-esteem is really the accumulation of beliefs that we have collected about ourselves.  We arrange these many beliefs in some sort of composite much like a tile mosaic.  Each piece is some shard taken from some experience or encounter or event or circumstance that has come our way at some time in our lives.  These many pieces are selected based … [Read more...]

Face it, there are just some things that we don’t like to do.  We all have those irritating things that incessantly demand our attention.  Every one of us has a collection of loathsome demands that keep throwing themselves in front of us.  Our lives are chock full of repetitive tasks, missed agenda items, overdue obligations, lapsed deadlines, and … [Read more...]

"The Self That I Long to Believe In" is a book that I wrote about the scourge of low self-esteem.  Low self-esteem is caustic, debilitating and destructive.  It eats away at our relationships, our dreams, our abilities and our very souls.  One evidence of our worth is the fact that we've all been called.  We've all been granted a purpose.  We are … [Read more...]

We Are a Mess We are a mess.  We are a mess because we are a people on a mad rant.  Sadly, we have become blinded to the fact that we are blinded by a host of pathetically self-serving agendas.  And the pathetic nature of these agendas are evidenced by the fact that they are unable to stand up to the slightest scrutiny despite how rigorous our … [Read more...]

Why is The World Like This? Why is the world like this anyway?  Why is the world so much of what we don’t want it to be like, and a whole lot less of what we do want it to be like?  Why is it so incredibly difficult to create the kind of world that we all would love to live in?  How is it that we’re able to visualize what we would actually like … [Read more...]

We all throw around the idea of having a purpose, or not having one, or wondering if we’re supposed to have one, or whatever we’re wondering.  We wonder if we really need a purpose, and if so do we create it or does it already exist and we just haven’t happened to happen upon it just yet?  However or in whatever way we go about it, we all ponder … [Read more...]

Is anyone listening?  In the world within which you live, is anyone listening?  Does your voice matter?  The pain that you carry, the confusion that dogs your steps, the fear that drains your soul, the dreams that lay buried in a distant past, and a future that you sense is already being buried by the same things that buried your past…is anyone … [Read more...]

In "The Self That I Long to Believe In," I wrote the following quote: “Don’t underestimate your capabilities and your resources.  Realize that the resources that you possess outclass and outweigh any flaw, whether perceived or real.  You can wound magnificence, but magnificence only becomes more magnificent in the wounding.” Your abilities … [Read more...]