Well, we finally (finish) voting tomorrow. Religion and politics, hmmm. What does any of this have to do with spirituality?

We've been building a building all summer and are now ready to begin reflecting on that spiritual journey.

While I was trying to load this podcast, I lost it! Just kidding. We lose things all the time. What's up with that? How is this a great metaphor for the spiritual life and our life as human beings?

We all get sick. It's a drag. And our kids get sick, that's really no fun. What's this illness all about? How might we respond from a spiritual perspective?

How do you find water 300 feet underground? You can't see it, there aren't any directions, you can't control the outcome of your search. Thus we resort to the mysterious. This is a great issue to see how God talks to us.

Cell phones are now a normal fixture of our lives. They even take precedence over our 'live' conversations. What are the spiritual consequences of that? Are they our idols? Are we addicted to them?

We did this podcast in the afternoon and we're a bit, hmmm, off our game so to speak. But perhaps we were just thrown by the lustful thoughts related to spending our tax returns! Ceaser reaches out and distracts us big-time!

After winter, things are a mess. So, we clean up! What a great analogy for the spiritual life: the uncluttering of our minds.

We teach our kids lots of stuff, even things about capitalism. All of these processes are valuable in that they teach us how to function in society, but they also create our worlds and limit our view of reality. Perhaps the spiritual life is all about broadening our view, un-socializing us!

Today our podcast is late (actually we were late last week too). Being late, or not, is a big deal in our society. Maybe you are an early person, or a late person. What's up with that? Does God care one way or the other? Do we get points in heaven for being on time?