Good or God?

As I handed him a blanket and some money I could see the dirt.  I could smell the days on the street.  I could sense the  loneliness.  As I drove away I thought of all the homeless people I have helped but not one time have I offered a hug.  I told them of the…

How can we presume to make someone or something soiled that God has created.  Peter was told by Jesus to eat of what he considered to be unclean. “How can you worry about what you consider unclean when God has already made it clean and purified it”.  Don’t we do that with people?  Through judgment…

As he cut me off in traffic the word idiot came out of my mouth.  When they told me what she had done, I simply said she is just stupid.  As those words became more common in my speak God grabbed my heart.   “You are talking about a child I love”.  “You’re degrading someone…

Why do we insist on playing God?  Daily I have conversations with people that rank sin. They judge other peoples lives based on the sin they perceive.  Those who judge, based on one lifestyle or another, feed their egos by thinking that my interpretation of scripture is right, and yours is wrong.  Why do so…

Have you thought about what it would be like to strip away all of self and replace it with love.  What if we could get so in tune with God that all selfishness was gone?  Simply by being human we are selfish by nature.  We always want what is best for us.  We might consider…

I was standing in the omelet line patiently waiting my turn.  As always, I spend that time looking to people to teach… to inspire.  I couldn’t help but notice her behavior.  She was demanding of the young man who was cooking.  Insisting he do it her way. Telling him what he was doing wrong, and…