Nick Vleisides5 days ago3 minFor the hug of God! I work alongside some amazing people who are cops and firefighters. For many years I’ve shared with them some of the most heart...
Nick VleisidesMay 92 minThe Older I GetIt’s tough getting old! It is so cliché! My back! My neck! My knees! Arthritis setting in! Menthol and CBD creams! Can’t remember why I...
Nick VleisidesApr 124 minDON'T YOU JUST LOVE THAT?The older I get (and I am getting older but not ready to be “old” quite yet) the more I tend to stand back and question, wonder and...
Nick VleisidesMar 144 minDoes God Have Hands?My father was a pragmatist—Get er’ done! In the early 1900’s his parents escaped the Ottoman Empire’s genocide of Armenians which also...
Nick VleisidesFeb 273 minSpa SpiritualityI read this the other day. “God is not only stranger than we think, but stranger than we can think.” It is a strange world that we live...
Nick VleisidesFeb 105 minDo You Like Living in The Mystery?I have a few embarrassing Costco stories. Like the time I dropped a large container of fresh blueberries in the parking lot as I was...
Nick VleisidesFeb 34 minMeeting JesusI ran across an online ad today which announced the first Sunday service of a new church in the area. Being a bit curious about it I...
Nick VleisidesJan 194 minShort Way to GodEwan McGregor, of Star Wars fame (Obi-Wan Kenobi) and many other films, has produced several adventure documentaries over the years...
Nick VleisidesDec 23, 20219 minI-M-M-A-N-U-E-LOne early morning a couple of weeks before Christmas when living in Austin I was having breakfast with several friends and my fire...
Nick VleisidesDec 8, 20219 minON LOSING YOUR CHRISTMAS LISTIt was Christmas, and I was beholding a holiday spectacle of neatly wrapped and colorful presents. There were scarlet red boxes with...
Nick VleisidesOct 21, 20214 minThe World According to Burt BacharachIn the mid-sixties I recall when my parents, trying to be hip with the times, purchased a console stereo for our home. It was a rather...
Nick VleisidesOct 1, 20213 minUsed to Go to Church: "That's me!" Recently I spent a day at a high school speaking to health classes about anxiety, depression and suicide. As a law enforcement chaplain,...
Nick VleisidesSep 15, 20212 minIt Is Finished! No! Wait! I'm Not Quite There Yet!Franciscan priest and Catholic mystic writes in his book, The Universal Christ, "The Christian life is simply becoming who we already...
Nick VleisidesJul 21, 20215 minSAVED TO...My buddy Ron and I decided to take my dad’s eighteen foot outboard boat out for a late afternoon shark fishing adventure. We were just...
Nick VleisidesJun 25, 20215 minI Think, Therefore I ThinkI think this. I don’t know this, but I think it. I’ve never liked the concept of hell, the place of eternal torment and separation from...
Nick VleisidesMay 20, 20213 minDeath Changed MeI think a lot about death. Can't help it. I've been on hundreds of chaplain calls over the years where a death has occurred. Almost...
Nick VleisidesMay 1, 20215 minThe 150,000The San Ramon Valley, where I live and serve as a first responder chaplain, has a population of around 170,000. It is located in the...
Nick VleisidesMar 31, 20213 minHeaven or NotJust got home and TV was on. A commercial caught my attention which was addressing something about heaven. It caught my attention...
Nick VleisidesMar 20, 20212 minIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It! I don’t know. So many people around where I live used to go to church. They’ve been there. Done that. If they walked into a church on any...
Nick VleisidesMar 1, 20214 minFleetwood Mac on Any SundayI think it must have been maybe the summer of 1975, take or add a year. My buddy Bill and I drove up from San Clemente to the University...