No more striving

No more striving

Surrender is not a popular notion in our hard-charging, get-it-done culture. It came into my vocabulary when I began practicing the 12 steps. Step three is traditionally written “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood...
Surrender to love

Surrender to love

When I was 20 years old and first claiming my identity as a contemplative mystic, I read “The Practice of the Presence of God,” a little book that describes the practice of Brother Lawrence, a 17th century Carmelite monk. I returned to the book recently, its text now...
Applied Serenity

Applied Serenity

It’s pretty simple: I think that the cure for discomfort is control. I am wrong. While other cave people were fighting or fleeing, my ancestors were making Gantt charts. If we could just get an intellectual handle on the situation, understand the variables and get...