Run past the finish line, I was told. Endings are better than beginnings, a wise man said. Finish well, the old saying goes. Problem is, beginnings come much easier to me. Maybe to all of us. When watching actors audition, there is a moment I wait for, look for, anticipate with great hope. It's the …
How to Pray
The disciples wondered how to pray, and asked Jesus to teach them. The gospel of Matthew records the version of Jesus' reply we know as The Lord's Prayer. Simple, direct, covers all the bases; praise, petition, and ascribing appropriate glory. Paul says plainly, "Pray continually" or more famously, "without ceasing." And …
The Questions, The Moral Fight, and Love
I don't like politics. Men and women struggling over power, wealth, and good. Forces of human action contending valiantly and corruptly, if need be, to control, coerce, or more nobly, to free. Senators beaten with canes in full view (see pre-Civil War politics), Congresswomen shot at close range in grocery store parking lots, and …
Learning to Work on Your Work
So I went from full time to half time to all-the-time. From lots of people everyday to hardly any people any day. From interactions with people focused primarily on what some would call "spirituality" to interactions based on whatever happens to be flying around the human experience at the moment. From intense Biblical …
Soul Enlarging Songs
So what is a song? What's it's for? What is it about a particular marriage of lyric and rhythm and melody that makes a spirit rise from the dead, as it were, and find new energy for the day. When I was in high school, I listened to Janis Ian's famous album that contained "At …
JEFF BERRYMAN 