I recently heard a friend say that going to an Al-Anon meeting was like going to church. This person talked about what it was like to be able sit together in such broken love. I’ve heard others talk or write about what it is like to walk into other12 Step meetings where they immediately feel […]
Have been thinking again about the surprise and irony of the longest chapter in the Bible. In the Hebrew language it was poetry, a song written to express heart felt appreciation for “the revealed teaching” of the Lord. When numbers were attached to the individual “verses” of this song, the count went to 176 ways […]
A segment on NPR today calls attention to a stress reliever and health factor that is right under our nose. In a discussion about the potential effects of breathing on everything from digestion, heart, brain function, and our immune system, “Mladen Golubic, a physician in the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative Medicine, says that breathing […]
The Wall Street we see on the evening news looks out of control. The flailing arms and white shirts on the floor of the trading pit give the appearance of a madhouse way of doing business. The earlier chaos. The confusion, however, is more orderly than the system it replaced. Before the development of “futures […]
