When my mother died about a year ago, I ended up with the old scythe that had hung in my parents' garage for decades. It was the perfect prop for this performance of "The Grim Reaper will never come for me" from Now is Where God Lives. The other guy in the video is my brother Rick, who, despite being a lousy actor, has truly been a steady friend and companion throughout my life! I don't know about you, but I don't live too peacefully with knowing that Death could take me at a

“Prayer doesn’t work,” a patient said to me recently—“I pray for things and I don’t get them, so I don’t believe in prayer anymore.” I told him there is a way to pray that works every time. I discovered a metaphor for that kind of prayer while making the pond at the center of the garden in our backyard. The guy at the pond place said that before I dug anything I needed to place cinder blocks around the pond’s perimeter that were level with each other all the way around. This