Strange question.   Right?   I’m hoping so, because that’s what God has mostly called me to do here on earth.   Ask strange questions most people aren’t asking.  As a pastor in Church this has previously cost me some favor by those in power.  And perhaps that’s why I’ve gone back to my prior role as a therapist in the area of behavioral healthcare.   At least there it’s more expected, if not always appreciated.     I write this here simply to preface what it means to me to as

How happy are you these days?   What goes into your answer?   Do you have some “why” and/or “why not” in mind as you consider your own level of happiness?     Do you care about others’ happiness?   Does it matter to you whether people in your country or beyond are happy or not?   Does that affect your own level of happiness?   Perhaps you are aware of something called The World Happiness Report.   I recently learned this Report was sponsored by the small Asian nation of Bhuta

I guess I’m telling you something you already know about me, God.   I’m enraged these days.  That is, I have a level of anger built up inside of me that is beyond simple annoyance, and thus meeting the dictionary definition of “rage.”  By being in rage or enraged, I carry this angry emotion in my body and mind in ways that feel like a 100 lb. weight.   It’s not good for my body’s health.  So it’s up to my mind to get it out of my body somehow.  Get it off my mind.   Turn my “

I thought of this word, “whither,”  in connection with the events taking place in today’s world and then stopped.   I felt uncertain.  Self-doubt.  Googled its definition just to be sure.   Yes.  That’s the right word: meaning “to which place or state”  we are headed.   I feel uncertain that we are headed into World War III.   I have a lot of self-doubt.   Always have.   But I just may be right that we are, if I can put it more bluntly, already in this War to transcend all pr