Once, when I was a chaplain at Union Rescue Mission, a tall, thin man came into my office. He was nice looking, about thirty five years old, with a big mustache. I liked him the second I saw him. He began to tell me his story. I let him talk for a few minutes. As … More Bob’s Beautiful Story
George Caywood At Union Rescue Mission where I worked I often heard long term volunteers say things like “Before I started volunteering at URM I had no idea how homeless I was spiritually and emotionally”. On the other hand I lost volunteers because When they realized that homeless folks were just like them it made the … More Volunteers At Union Rescue Mission
There is a tension between the urgent and the important. One of the things that went wrong for me at Union Rescue Mission was that the frantic urgency of running the mission made it hard for me me to remain God centered. I began getting to the mission at 5:30 or 6:00 AM. That greatly … More On The urgent And The Important
This afternoon I watched “Saving Private Ryan”. The whole movie is about sparing a mother who had lost 3 sons in Second World War battles from losing her fourth son, Private Ryan. A squad was sent into a battle zone to find Private Ryan and to send him home. The Squad that was sent after … More Man And Woman
I have had some marvelous experiences when a friend calls me up and asks me to lunch. -One of the best was when I had about a year in the program. After a meeting Anita, a happily safely married woman asked me if I wanted to have lunch with her At lunch, we laughed and … More Great lunches
From the age of seven until the age of fifteen, I lived in Coronado, Ca. which means we lived there from 1945-1953. Coronado is called an island but it is actually connected to the San Diego area by a narrow strip of sand called The Silver Strand. Coronado, which is across the bay from San … More Shame From My Boyhood Poverty
All my life, I have felt a deep loneliness. The persistence of the loneliness has been frightening. It has seemed to me, that the consistent loneliness was inarguable proof that something was wrong with me. I tried to talk myself out of the lonely feelings. I tried to uncover wounds out of my boyhood that … More Roots of my Loneliness
Thanks Lini. There is no other way to enjoy God’s dearness but through surrender. Believe me I have tried many other easier ways. What I have done good or bad are totally irrelevant. It is a clue to how lost I am that surrendering to infinite, total love seems like it is so difficult for … More Surrender
Abuse by Its Real Name…….With all the discussion on rape in news now I have been thinking about the my memories about being sexually abused when I was a boy. I wanted to be like other people so badly growing up that I had a hard time coming face to face with those painful places … More Abuse by its Real Name
I have more than 30 semester units of “F” on my college record. That is because I had seven consecutive semesters in which I enrolled for classes at San Diego State University and dropped out every semester. Two of my dropout semesters I failed to withdraw from my classes.Of Course, I failed all those classes. … More 30 Units of “F”
George Caywood 