So hard to be. Not knowing who I am instead of what I feel. Reflections clouded in retrograde while I wax and wane. Why aren’t you enough? Why this tangible need within? I lust for your touch, to know Love beyond love, to be raptured by my Lover until self and Other become One. The […]
Read More Stained mirrorsAround the age of 27, I’d finally had it with Christianity. I’d unintentionally sabotaged myself four years previously when I became disillusioned with ministry and the church as I knew it, trying to take my happiness in my own hands because I felt burnt out and underappreciated by God. I’d become bitter with God and […]
Read More The only reason I remained a ChristianIn a cozy doctor’s office with plush couches and rich mahogany bookshelves Holy Spirit: Thank you for taking the time to meet with us, David. Me: Sure, I guess. This is weird. Holy Spirit: What do you mean? Me: This. I’m in a session with you as counselor – clever, by the way – and […]
Read More Couples counseling with GodLove is not permissiveness: love is commitment and sacrifice. But how do you go about doing love? I’m asking this in a corporate sense, not a one-on-one relationship sense. How do you love your neighbor in your interactions with society as a whole? I don’t really know. Love may not be permissive, but it also […]
Read More How do you love?Ahhhh….take a deep breath and inhale the aroma of our culture: “Don’t touch my rights!!!!! How DARE you… “…take away my guns!!!…” “…not let me marry who I want!!!…” “…take prayer out of schools!!!…” “…kill old ladies and the poor!!!…” “What do you think you’re DOING??? How could you… “…vote for that communist??!!…” “…vote for […]
Read More Angry peoplePart of what we touched on in the last post was the observation that our personal damage – our own brokenness – skews our perceptions of reality in false directions. It would therefore be wise to seek healing in order to limit our biases. I’m going to be blunt – not long ago I thought […]
Read More An adjustment of my own
David S. Wisener 