Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.