Category: The Spiritual

A friend recently sent me a great article that offered advice to those over 65. https://maybienvh.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/between-65-and-death/ If you know me, you know I think such articles can be improved. Here’s my attempt. The “Golden” years of “retirement are our last and best effort to be […]

I have a really busy day today. I am writing this at 4:15. I need to go swimming early because I have a breakfast meeting at 6:30. I have a doctor’s appointment with my neurosurgeon at 10. Rosemary has appointments starting at 1. I have […]

In the eleven years I was in the Navy, we lived in about thirty different places. Each was as much home as our current residence of thirty years. It’s been great to be in the same place so long.  The house is full of mostly […]

To be sorry is to have a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others. We are sorry and depressed people. During 2011–2014, about one in eight Americans aged 12 and over reported taking antidepressants in the […]

The captain of a battleship at sea noted a light on a dangerous collision course. The captain immediately ordered his signalman to signal: “We are on a collision course. I advise you to change course 20 degrees east.” Back came a response from the other […]

  I love writing blogs, teaching, that kind of thing. I like the connection which makes teaching the best. Writing a blog, I don’t always feel the connection. Feedback is sporadic. The more direct the connection, the better. It’s also why I feel an obligation […]

  My resolution for 2020 is to follow the daily meditations contained in David Jeremiah’s Daily in the Presence. If I am able to be true to that commitment, much of what I write in 2020 will spring from his meditations. I would never claim […]

Yesterday I spent time with ten inmates on death row at Angola. I have known these men for nearly two years. I met them at the first-ever Kairos weekend retreat on death row in February 2018. The men have met every Monday since to conduct […]