Living Grace

When I was a child, we were more or less told to “stuff” our feelings. These days, we are encouraged to express, indulge, and act on our every emotional whim. Both approaches are wrong! We have feelings, but we are always more than our feelings. Because we are the...

Believe it or not, fear is entirely unnatural; God has created us to live without it. Fear arises within human consciousness as a result of delusion. We fear because we believe we are separate from God, left to our own devices, and entirely responsible for ourselves....

Two of our most common, deeply-rooted primal fears deal with economic insecurity and a sense of personal inadequacy. Most of us spend enormous amounts of energy doing our best to deny, repress, or avoid the anxieties associated with these fears, but sooner...

The entire human race suffers from an anxiety disorder: we all carry within us layer upon layer of fear, which is the primary source of human suffering. Fear constricts our minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. To the extent that we are...

Growing up in the inner city and having to be tough to survive, I learned to deny any semblance of fear. But denying fear does not make it go away. Denial simply pushes fear underground where it begins to do even more damage.What I have learned since I embraced the...

Undoubtedly, enjoying the fruits of our labors is a good thing. Yet, we must never lose sight of life’s ultimate purpose: the love of God and our neighbors. For the spiritual person, all choices must be subsumed under this organizing principle. Otherwise, we spend our...