Healthy Love: Need or Needy?
That all of nature is interconnected is a given. The symbiosis of pollinators and flowers, aspen groves, climate and weather, and gravity...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
10 Ways to be Engaged in Justice Without Getting Depressed
How do we enter the suffering of the world without being depressed, overwhelmed, or perpetually angry? The world is a mess. Humanity is...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Aug 23, 2022
- 4 min
A Few More Thoughts on Evil & Suffering
Bad stuff happens – cancer, war, floods, fires, racism, betrayal, poverty … Two questions are often intertwined in the problem of evil....
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Lawrence Taylor
- Aug 20, 2022
- 1 min
What is Spiritual Direction?
I am a certified spiritual director, trained in the Benedictine tradition at the Global Online Benedictine Spiritual Direction Program in...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Aug 20, 2022
- 6 min
Our Shadow Selves
The shadow self is not evil or sinful; it is simply hidden. The heart of the universe is pure love. God is love – unconditional, perfect,...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
a heart cracked open
People say there is nothing harder than losing a child. I can’t say for sure – there’s much I haven’t experienced. I can say that when my...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Aug 17, 2022
- 3 min
Pain we cannot fix
Because we are created, designed, and therefore evolved as rational, thinking beings, we humans often display an innate curiosity, a...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
How to stop being arrogant
Affirm others Accept others Don’t judge others Be kind Be polite Don't seek approval through achievements. Look for the value in...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jul 30, 2022
- 3 min
Space for Grace
There is a crack, a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in (Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”) Every spelunker knows caverns are often...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jul 26, 2022
- 6 min
Becoming Whole
The heart of the universe is pure love. God is love – unconditional, perfect, cruciform love. God is nice; God likes us. There is nothing...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jul 21, 2022
- 3 min
Shame: The Devil’s Most Potent Weapon
Evil’s most potent weapon is shame. Shame says, “I am bad; I am not enough; I am wrong.” Guilt, on the other hand says, “I made a...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jul 20, 2022
- 5 min
How Do We View Others?
The Anointing of Jesus Our post-Enlightenment occidental minds are steeped in modernity and find it necessary to be individualistic,...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jul 12, 2022
- 2 min
Two Signs of Spiritual Maturity
Two of the signs of increasing spiritual maturity are inclusivity and nonbinary thinking. The more we come to know the heart of God, the...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jun 11, 2022
- 1 min
Sheep
In his The Book of Soul, Mark Nebo relates a conversation with the Abenake elder Joseph Bruchac who shared the lesson inherent in how the...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Apr 22, 2022
- 1 min
Elliott
I cannot picture you at 51 Only the living age In my mind you are forever The lanky teenager, so Brilliant, so deep, so fearless Thinking...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Apr 18, 2022
- 4 min
You are more than your story
Stories. We all have them. But we are not our stories. We simply live inside our stories. Some people, perhaps most, mistakenly identify...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Apr 9, 2022
- 2 min
Codependency or Cruciform Love?
C ruciform love, love that looks like the cross, is the way of Christ. It is self-sacrificial. · “Deny yourself, take up your cross,...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Feb 25, 2022
- 2 min
Rivers of Sorrow
Most every spring the river would flood. we were used to it, but as Greed continued to destroy the Garden, the rains came earlier and...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 27, 2022
- 2 min
Our Tender Caregiving God
Some years ago, I visited a refugee camp in northern Thailand. It was more like a prison camp –barbed wire, locked gates, Quonset huts,...
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Lawrence Taylor
- Jan 11, 2022
- 2 min
Slow Down
“Still waters run deep” is a proverb of Latin origin that originally meant that a placid exterior may be masking a passionate interior...
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