I’ve been experiencing less than optimal health for a few weeks now. Nothing serious – a cold that seems to ebb and flow but never quite leave, some digestive problems, and a lack of energy.

According to Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, in their book Conscious Loving, the complaint of the victim is, “...this is not the experience I should be having”. If, they say, we take responsibility for our lives, then every experience we have is exactly the experience we should be having. So, on some level, I’m choosing to feel like crap!

What’s tricky about feeling sub-par is that it makes it more difficult to focus one’s thoughts on how we do want to feel, or what we do want to create i ...

The other morning, Kate and I watched a roadrunner getting his breakfast – a good-sized lizard. The whole process was filled with intensity, and, as it seemed to us, violence. The big bird repeatedly beat the lizard against a rock. The lizard repeatedly tried to run away, but was invariably caught by the roadrunner and brought back to the killing ground, until he was (finally!) dead, and could be eaten.

Then I thought, “…is ‘violence’ really the correct word/thought here?” The roadrunner was simply fulfilling his role in the divine design, which seems filled with predators and prey. He was just “doing his job” – and doing it well. All creatures need to eat.

Kate and I have had many discussions about predation and, and the fact that I am a carniv ...