When we try to understand anything, most of us have at our disposal the ability to think, to remember and to will. In other words, we tend to perceive and experience our lives in a way that brings together the faculties of mind, memory and will. …

In order to see something, it has to be visible and we have to perceive it. Light is normally what is needed for sight. Sunlight naturally or artificially produced is what allows us to see concrete things in this world,   However, we also have the capacity to recognize both that we are seeing and what we are seeing.…

 In some sense, I am a planner.  Over the years, I have planned vacations by doing research, booking excursions, and creating itineraries.  Most times that has made for a very pleasant and often predictable trip.  What is exhilarating I have found, though, are the in-between spaces that I build into the vacation where nothing is planned. …

There is a sense, I believe, where life can be viewed as a series of ‘leaving’ and ‘remaining.’  More to the point perhaps, things and people, come and go.  Inasmuch as we seem designed as humans to seek that which is most certain and everlasting, much of life on face value seems to be exactly the opposite of this. …

“Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place you stand is holy ground…
  I am who am…this is what you shall tell the Israelites, I AM sent me to you.”

Many times we talk about God as if God is absent or hiding.…