Living Grace

Monday: What is our response to the world's chaos and its ensuing suffering? Anger, fear, and denial only make it worse. No political messiah will save us.  The answer is simple: love! Tuesday: The only legitimate use of our free will, our power, is the choice to...

God does not have parts or categories. God does not have moods. God is simple. God is love, only love. To say that God is love is to say that God is the perfect, non-dualistic synthesis of all that is true, beautiful, and good. Yet, there is a qualification: when the...

Just as the sun gives life to all the life-forms on planet earth, it is only God’s love that gives life to our heart’s desire for justice, peace, solidarity among people, and joy. Without God’s love we are just rational animals, and rational animals are the most...

Why does God allow suffering? I only wish I could give a perfect answer. However, what is true below is true above. When God birthed the human race into existence on planet earth, God ceded a degree of power to us. We refer to this power as free will, and not even God...

There is much misery in the world. We can try to wall ourselves off from it, to no avail. Even in the archetypal story of Adam and Eve’s life in paradise, a dastardly serpent creates chaos. So, what is our response to this chaos and its ensuing suffering? Anger, fear,...

Those who take the spiritual life seriously know the following truth: when we follow God and Guru they will inevitably take us where we need to go, but also where we would never go on our own. Still deeper, God and Guru literally deconstruct our understanding of God,...