YOUR SPIRITUAL ESCROW ACCOUNT
On August 27, a postcard sent 72 years ago was finally delivered to the recipient’s address. While Alan Ball, now 88, was visiting New York City in 1953, he sent his parents, Frederic and Elizabeth Ball, a postcard, which became lost deep in the postal system. When the Ottawa, Illinois postmaster found the relic last […]
LOOK UP
This week I came across an inspiring video about a woman who was miraculously healed of depression and insomnia. Kathryn had been struggling with these issues since age 10. By the time she reached aged 48, she was under the care of six doctors, taking lots of medications. When Kathryn discovered the work of German […]
BREAKING BAD PROMISES
We have all made promises we wish we hadn’t made. We had a marriage that didn’t work out, a business deal we hadn’t thought through, or a friendship that has changed. If you are a person of integrity, you hate to break a promise, and you may feel guilty for doing so. Or you resent […]
THE HIDDEN PATH TO GREATNESS
I met a fellow whose father was a mail carrier in Modesto, California. Nearly every day he delivered science fiction magazines and comic books to a young guy who had graduated from high school, still living at home. The boy’s mother complained to the mailman, “He is living at home like a little boy.” The […]
A REFUGE FROM INSANITY
One of the movies we will be exploring in our upcoming MetaCinema series is the brilliant classic 1937 version of Lost Horizon. In the film, high-minded statesman Robert Conway, while escaping from a war in China, is kidnapped to Shangri-La, an idyllic utopian community tucked high in the Himalayas. There he meets the High Lama […]
WHAT BRINGS YOU LIFE?
We used to have a wonderful chef cater our retreat programs. Sally wowed our participants at every meal, and their feedback was stellar. Over time, however, the quality of her cooking declined. Whereas Sally’s homemade desserts, for example, used to be scrumptious, one day when I walked into the kitchen, I found a box of […]