When I was a child, I recall having this wonderful and mysterious experience with trees.  For some odd reason, I suppose, I imagined that I could put my entire (at that time) quite small hand around the trunk of a very large tree. …

The Jesuit Paleontologist (and indeed mystic) Teilhard de Chardin conceived of all creation in the universe as “glowing” with God – the presence of God was everywhere and in everything.  He was not saying that God WAS everything as in pantheism, but that God’s radiance shone through everything, as an incandescent flame beneath the “skin” of all life, like glowing metal heated to extreme temperatures. …

What is it that you feel you need?  It could be a job, food, medication, health care, someone to listen to me, a new house, a car, a competent accountant, a visa, forgiveness, and the list goes on.  Depending on whom and under what circumstances this question is asked, the answers will vary greatly. …

The names we choose are important.  There is so much associated with the naming of a business, an event, etc.….a child.  Many times the names we use tell a lot about how we “perceive” that which we are talking about – be it a person, place, thing, or event. …

In the academy-award winning 1980 movie “Ordinary People,” directed by Robert Redford, and starring Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland, there is a climactic scene wherein the character “Conrad,” played by Timothy Hutton, explodes during a session with his therapist, played by Judd Hirsch.…