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Lawrence Taylor
Nov 30, 20222 min read
What is God's opinion of you?
The trinity of parables in Luke 15 – lost coin, lost sheep, lost sons. The first doesn’t seem to get as much attention as the other two....
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Lawrence Taylor
Nov 27, 20221 min read
The Blessing of Vulnerability
While protecting themselves from The pain of another broken heart, Silhouettes ran away, leaving Murky soul waters – Opaque, clouded with...
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Lawrence Taylor
Oct 22, 20222 min read
Some Thoughts Ascending
from C.S. Lewis’ letter to Walter Hopper on November 30, 1954 The goal of deeply knowing oneself is to forget oneself. Forgetting oneself...
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Lawrence Taylor
Oct 16, 20223 min read
Suffering Sucks
“God is the God of the sufferers.” – Martin Buber “… our pain softens the shell that insulates us from the suffering of others.” – Emma...
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Lawrence Taylor
Oct 5, 20223 min read
How Does God See Us?
Even though his father was a prominent member of Congress, Charles Lindbergh was still just a farm boy from Minnesota. When he made the...
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Lawrence Taylor
Sep 30, 20223 min read
Do You Fall in Love Too Easily?
Do you fall in love too easily? You’re hopelessly romantic. You keep falling in love only to wind up hurt. Emophilia is the psychological...
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Lawrence Taylor
Sep 21, 20222 min read
Learning to Pray
Swaying walnut trees above the rooftops Wave golden tipped arms over the Unmoving great blue heron in Frozen pose at river’s edge,...
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Lawrence Taylor
Sep 16, 20222 min read
Why Am I Afraid?
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational. Rational fears are based on a real threat and serve to protect us by automatically...
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Lawrence Taylor
Sep 15, 20221 min read
Grief, Loss, Suicide
My oldest child committed suicide when he was not quite 15-years-old. He was not mentally ill. He was not depressed or bipolar. He was...
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Lawrence Taylor
Sep 10, 20222 min read
The Women in Our Lives
There are numerous women in all of our lives. All of us, regardless of biology, have both a feminine and a masculine side to our...
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Lawrence Taylor
Sep 9, 20223 min read
Listen to Hermits
Hermits appear in many myths. Two show up in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Generally, the mythological hermits are good guys,...
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Lawrence Taylor
Sep 4, 20224 min read
Parsifal and the Myth of the Holy Grail
The medieval legend of King Arthur and the Quest for the Holy Grail contains the story of Parsifal.[1] In folklore, the Holy Grail is the...
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Lawrence Taylor
Aug 28, 20223 min read
Healthy Love: Need or Needy?
That all of nature is interconnected is a given. The symbiosis of pollinators and flowers, aspen groves, climate and weather, and gravity...
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Lawrence Taylor
Aug 23, 20222 min read
10 Ways to be Engaged in Justice Without Getting Depressed
How do we enter the suffering of the world without being depressed, overwhelmed, or perpetually angry? The world is a mess. Humanity is...
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Lawrence Taylor
Aug 23, 20224 min read
A Few More Thoughts on Evil & Suffering
Bad stuff happens – cancer, war, floods, fires, racism, betrayal, poverty … Two questions are often intertwined in the problem of evil....
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Lawrence Taylor
Aug 20, 20221 min read
What is Spiritual Direction?
I am a certified spiritual director, trained in the Benedictine tradition at the Global Online Benedictine Spiritual Direction Program in...
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Lawrence Taylor
Aug 20, 20226 min read
Our Shadow Selves
The shadow self is not evil or sinful; it is simply hidden. The heart of the universe is pure love. God is love – unconditional, perfect,...
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Lawrence Taylor
Aug 17, 20221 min read
a heart cracked open
People say there is nothing harder than losing a child. I can’t say for sure – there’s much I haven’t experienced. I can say that when my...
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Lawrence Taylor
Aug 17, 20223 min read
Pain we cannot fix
Because we are created, designed, and therefore evolved as rational, thinking beings, we humans often display an innate curiosity, a...
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Lawrence Taylor
Aug 9, 20221 min read
How to stop being arrogant
Affirm others Accept others Don’t judge others Be kind Be polite Don't seek approval through achievements. Look for the value in...
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