Internal versus External

Internal versus external: I thought the book of Proverbs, In the Hebrew bible was A list of things to do, or not to do, All about external behavior & Warnings about consequences. Slowly reading Proverbs again today, I was surprised to discover the word ‘Heart’...

The Soul

—What Is Running My Life at Any Moment … Dallas Willard in Renovation of the Heart also views the human person in terms of these five dimensions. He describes the soul: What is running your life at any given moment is your soul. Not external circumstances, or...

Ancient Wells

The year 2000, in retrospect, was a watershed year for us.  As is typically the case in life with God, it unfolded independently from any plan or intention on our part. Hanna had come to the point where she was ready to investigate and visit the places of her parents’...

Life Adjustments

June 14, 2012 About that visit to Baltimore in October 2005, just after my 65th birthday… here are notes I made on the flight back to Phoenix.  I have kept them, written in my own hand, in my prayer journal ever since, and have prayed through them countless times:...

Beginning to Write

June 13, 2012 Today I am beginning to write.  It is not as though I have never written; I have been writing for decades.  But today is different.   Hanna and I are beginning our second quarter quiet week at Santa Rita Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the high desert...