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August 19, 2026

That fear kept me ‘in the fold’ for many years. Any exploration, reaching out beyond our walls, high as they were, was with great trepidation. Even after leaving home, the angst was downloaded in my head as an internal critical parent always doing surveillance of all the actions or thoughts I entertained.

August 19, 2026

August 16, 2026

Peter, Jean and Mike: Companions?

August 16, 2026

A new character, a telepath named Jean Grey, is introduced but in the beginning not as a good girl. We find out, she is simply trying to find her sister who was also telepathic. Jean and Peter share that unique sense that few others understand and as the movie ends, they connect pledging to not go it alone, at least one other person understands.

August 16, 2026

Being in our right Mind

August 16, 2026

In dealing with many of our anxieties, phobias, compulsions and fears we need to 'get out of our heads’—or at least out of the linear left brain that is always analyzing, processing, dividing and often blaming—ad infinitum. This becomes 'run on thinking' or a circular inner dialogue that defies what even we ourselves previously know. It is where 'control' for the addict resides within us or the ‘solution’ resides for the spiritually self-righteous. Our challenge consistently is "how do I turn it off?"

August 16, 2026

August 9, 2026

The grand lie….The Great Truth

August 9, 2026

Then in the multiple revivals (Sunday mornings, Sunday and Wednesday nights weren’t enough) we had several days of ‘renewal’, camp meetings and ‘getting back to Jesus’ during the year, stoking the flames of restoration. The fire and brimstone of hell was the heat we really felt.

August 9, 2026

On the care of Lilies

August 9, 2026

Family wise it was an anxious summer. The thought of loosing a salary while at the same time sending our oldest daughter off to college drove my worries through the roof. Our income was going drastically down, expenses going up.

August 9, 2026

June 16, 2026

LEAVING

June 16, 2026

Just as Abram left Ur, just as Dorothy left Kansas, as our children leave home—we too must go. Isn’t that what any change is about? Why do I fear leaving so much? What is so scary about it? When I left home at eighteen for college I was venturing into an unknown neither of my parents had experienced.

June 16, 2026

May 6, 2026

Shadows

May 6, 2026

Second semester of my freshman year I had philosophy. It was in that class that we read Plato’s Allegory of the Cave which has been one of the most descriptive and powerful things I’ve ever read

May 6, 2026

January 15, 2026

ENOUGH

January 15, 2026

There is a balance in all of life to seek after and yet the very term implies forces are always coming against it—throwing us, pulling us off balance—off center. The writer of Ecclesiastes was right. There is a time for everything under the sun.

January 15, 2026

October 9, 2025

THE END—er ah

October 9, 2025

My name, Michael, means ‘who is like God’. What a claim—a joke. It feels almost blasphemous to be called by such a name—almost to the point of embarrassment. Then my middle name, David, means ‘beloved’— a bit easier to swallow. Nan Merrill (Psalms for Praying: A Invitation to Wholeness) has reminded me for years that God is my beloved and feels that way for all of us—not just we Davids.

October 9, 2025

October 6, 2025

On Friendship & Caring

October 6, 2025

Judy and I are new friends with like histories which drew us quickly together. She is a delight. When she shared these writings I asked if I could post a few, she agreed.

October 6, 2025