Compassionate Heart Community

I confess that I am one of those strange people who thinks about God a lot. I am also inclined to believe that when we think about God, we think too small. This is because we start from a place of traditional God definitions. We start with the God of our great grandfathers, determine what it is about that God that we don't believe, and propose a new version of God based largely on the version we have rejected....

Belief and Imagination I confess that I am one of those strange people who thinks about God a lot. I am also inclined to believe that when we think about God, we think too small. This is because we start from a place of …

Oh yes, everyone is wounded. Me too. I understand. You have all been broken and it's terribly unfair. Of course we all haven't been wounded in the same degree or in the same way, nevertheless we are wounded. Someone or several someones have damaged us unfairly. It never should have happened. Can we stipulate to that? I'd like to point out that having something bad happen is a nearly universal experience....

Can We Stop It, Please? Oh yes, everyone is wounded. Me too. I understand. You have all been broken and it’s terribly unfair. Of course we all haven’t been wounded in the same degree or in the same way, nevert…

Do Americans even know what they want any longer? Most of the knee jerk answers people offer when asked what they really want seem to offer up something that, realistically, they aren't ever going to have. Some say they want to be wealthy, but that's a profoundly subjective goal. Others want to be happy, but are hard pressed to identify what conditions would have to exist for them to be happy....

What do we really want? Do Americans even know what they want any longer? Most of the knee jerk answers people offer when asked what they really want seem to offer up something that, realistically, they aren’t ever …