One morning the neighbor’s chickens came into my yard (AGAIN!!!) and were digging up my garden. I had just HAD IT! I was angry, disappointed, sad, frustrated at myself for letting it get to me, and at my wits end about what to do about those chickens. My thought was not clear or uplifted. I needed…
Category: Insights/Healings
Realize!
To realize is to make real, just like to homogenize is to make homogeneous, to categorize is to make into categories, and to capitalize is to make capital. By realizing, or recognizing, what is good around us, we make goodness real in our experience here and now; we “real-ize” it. And we should realize God’s…
Allergic reaction healed
When I was working in high tech in a leadership role my boss did something I felt was quite unfair to my group. Since I was so angry about it, it seemed prudent to speak to my boss about it so I scheduled an appointment to speak with him for late the next morning – hoping…
Head cold and financial stress relieved
There was a time in my life when I was sick with a miserable cold and stressed out by a fear of insufficiency of financial supply. I began to pray about this, with the line of the Lord’s Prayer, “give us this day our daily bread”. I knew that my daily need was being met,…
Knee Injury Healed
One day I was out riding my 5-1/2 foot tall unicycle and I hit a stone that caused the unicycle to stop but I kept going. When I fell I landed hard and twisted one of my knees. It was quite painful. I could hardly walk, and I knew I had to pray about it…
Lessons from a nighttime skydive
I first jumped out of a plane in 1980 and have over 1300 skydives now, but I vividly remember doing my first nighttime skydive. The conditions for skydiving at night are quite different than in the daylight because the winds behave differently at night. At night winds may be very strong above 1000 feet, but…
Fear while flying healed and safe landing
When I was a skydiver in the mid-western part of the United States around 1981 two things went wrong one day. The first was that our new young skydiving pilot forgot to replace the oil filler cap when he checked the oil in the plane. The oil filler cap was located on the nose of…
Neck injury healed
One day at gymnastics practice in high school my coach sent me to practice vaulting. I didn’t want to do it, but I did anyway. However, because I was angry I went stomping down the runway and slammed the spring board to initiate my vault. I hit the springboard so hard, and my timing was so off…
Look beyond the surface
When you look deep into the bottom of a cold pond you have an absolutely clear (even somewhat magnified) view of the rocks, animals, and plants that are in front of you. They’re either totally stationary or moving in a logical way. But if you only look at the surface of the water of that…
Injured hand healed
A few years ago, I was going on a plane trip to visit family in another state and the pull-out handle to the carry-on bag that I had was stuck. As I was waiting in the boarding area, I put both of my feet on the carry-on bag, grabbed its handle with one hand, and…