One of our friends asked a good question in response to the last post. Does anyone have a valid reason for being angry with God? Our answer to that question, as well as our thoughts about “anger with God” may depend on the extent to which we are inclined to “be right” or to “do […]
Is it safer to take out our anger on people or God? If we discover that we really do have a beef with the Almighty, are we wise to keep our feelings to ourselves? The Hebrew Scriptures give us plenty of examples. Let’s think about a couple. Jonah was a prophet who was angry with […]
Hopelessness can come from a lot of different directions. Sometimes an inclination to depressive moods reflects an inherited factor; or changes in our bodies. Feelings of despair can also reflect real or imagined loss, or the lingering trauma of birth, battle, or accident. Feeling like we have no hope can also reflect the results of […]
It seems increasingly clear that wisdom involves the ability to see what matters in the middle of confusing and conflicting information. But what keeps unnerving me is the realization that when it comes to seeing what matters, it’s so often something that cannot be seen by our natural eyes and understanding. We talked about this […]
Conventional wisdom reminds us that there is often more than one way to do something. The point is that it doesn’t make much sense to get stuck on our own way of how we want to do it if we agree on what it is that needs to get done. Yet to make the point, […]
