Hal Green, Ph.D

Treasure Moments of Pure Love

Treasure moments of pure love, moments when the fullness of your love for another arises and streams out of you, as if to surround the other. You experience a gravity-like bond between you, for which there are no words or means of measurement. And you sense that nothing in heaven or on earth can severe […]

Prayer and Laughter

You may not laugh as you pray, or pray while you laugh, but prayer and laughter have some crucial elements in common. Both help to lift you out of a situation, or the feeling of being trapped by the circumstances of your life. That is, they offer you an immediate way of stepping back from, […]

Prayer and Laughter

You may not laugh as you pray, or pray while you laugh, but prayer and laughter have some crucial elements in common. Both help to lift you out of a situation, or the feeling of being trapped by the circumstances of your life. That is, they offer you an immediate way of stepping back from, […]

Faith Precedes Understanding

    Augustine of Hippo (354-430), famously said: “Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” And Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) added, “I do not seek to understand so that I can believe, but I believe so that I may understand; and what […]

All We Really Have is Today

The only thing we really have is today. And just as importantly, today has us. We are all passing through this fragile ecosystem on a mysterious journey, which no one can take for us. We don’t know for sure when and where we began, whether at the moment of conception, or even before that, heaven […]

Faith Precedes Understanding

Augustine of Hippo (354-430), famously said: “Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” And Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) added, “I do not seek to understand so that I can believe, but I believe so that I may understand; and what is […]