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I do not want to die soon
Soul Seeing: Reminders of our inevitable death are always opportunities to live more fully now, to love better, to serve more, to do what we know is right, to show we are grateful for family and friends, to worship our God, to smile at our neighbors.
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Breaking up is hard to do
Soul Seeing: In the past year, my relationship with Sugar has turned sour. Sugar and I had a compatible and mutually satisfying relationship since childhood. Like most breakups, this one includes betrayal, sadness and regret.
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Grace, human nature and my three homes
Soul Seeing: For a kid, the dark basement was a scary place. When my dad said, "Tom, run downstairs and get my hammer," the operative word was "run."
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My parents opened the door to the unmerited gift of grace
Soul Seeing: The reward-punishment dynamic was so pervasive in life that the extra jolt of my parents' acceptance for who I was simply felt good, though unnamed and unexplained.
