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People love it when preachers get in trouble. Newspapers and TV newscasters always like to play it up when some well-known preacher runs off with his secretary or the church offering.

Well — I haven’t done either one of those things, but I still need to repent anyway. What I have done is worse.

After 25 years and more of pastoring up here in the Klamath–Trinity region of northern California, I got caught not doing something, and now I have to own up to it.

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Life offers us so many wonderful opportunities, especially when we come to each day, each moment, from our highest vision of ourselves. But how do we do that? How do we create that sense of peace within ourselves?

We can start by examining what is ultimately important or of value to us. Take a moment to consider what those are for you. When any situation presents itself, try to remember what is truly important, examine how our reactions/responses fit with those things we value?

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When someone threatens our freedom, our inclination is to fight back - and fight back hard. No religion suggests that we stand idly by and allow others, either human or the forces of nature, to dominate us. The Buddha said, “I do not teach a surrender of anything to those powers that are evil, be they men or gods or the elements of nature.”

If our inherent freedom to live our lives freely, or practice our religion as we choose is threatened in any way, we dig our heels in and either openly or surreptitiously find ways to free ourselves from any yoke of oppression. This natural inclination is our human nature.

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When you pick up a stick by one end you’re simultaneously picking up the opposite end. In life, we seem to think we need to pick a point along a spectrum to the exclusion of all other possible points. We position ourselves toward the right or left or middle. The position we occupy then becomes defined in terms of its proximity to or distance from other points. We wind up focusing on our differences rather than our similarities.

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