My ideas about God have changed quite a bit over the years. I used to think of Him (yup, it was a Him) as a benevolent dictator, looking down at us, snapping his fingers when he felt like changing something, rewarding those he thought of us good, and punishing those he thought of as [...]
Yet another of my struggles in this whole creating a better life thing is the concept of selfishness vs. unselfishness.
Both of my parents were Christian pastors, and I did a lot of spiritual reading at an early age. I was taught that it’s wrong to be selfish. And the definition that I attached [...]
Is it really possible that there is something in my brain that, when things start getting OK, a little switch gets flipped that says “Hey Hey, Whoa There, just who the hell do you think you are????”
I’ve been down this road before. I start doing well, start gathering together the things that I’ve lost [...]
