Wrong again. Yesterday, Jerry’s prostate cancer pathology report showed that the edges of the tissue tested positive for cancer cells, in two spots. Not “We got it all,” like I’d hoped. Because the cancer has seemed like spiritual battle, I’d been sure God would win a decisive victory. Nope. Not in the way I expected. …
Category Archives: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Fear/Faith Percentage
John says in his first letter (4:18) "Perfect love casts out fear." Only God's love is perfect. As we receive/grasp/live in, his perfect love, we will be less and less fearful. Fear has, at points in my life, completely overwhelmed me. The severe mental illness I experienced in my twenties was an exercise in terror. …
Live in Peace, Choose Forgivness
"If you forgave them, why don't you go see them more often?" One of the attendees at a workshop on forgiving our parents asked. I'd spoken of the abuse from my father, his continuing oppressive nature, and how I'd given up my hatred, but still didn't spend much time with them. At the time, about …