A spiritual master once gave a hen to each of his two students and said, ‘Take them to a spot where you can kill them without anyone seeing you.’ The first disciple walked out and hiding behind a bush, he looked around and made sure that no one was watching. He then killed the hen…
Author: Emil Hanson
On The Position Of The Head
The position of one’s head is a sign, an indicator as how a person might be feeling, or how they are doing. When a person is out on the golf course and it his turn to tee off, to get a good swing at the ball the person had best keep his head down and…
On Woe
WOE is an acronym, abbreviation or slang word that is used to express various feelings depending on the circumstance. It is used most frequently when expressing surprise, such as “Woe!” WOE means “What On Earth” i.e., What are you doing there my friend? Or, it can express great sorrow or distress. Have you never had a…
On Conditioning
I was watching a video of a young man, approximately 12 or 13 years old, the other day, and I was just amazed at the way he expressed himself with so much confidence. He was young, he was black, and well groomed, but was he ever confident. He described how he was going to graduate…
On Perfection and Hope
Perfection is a hard word among those of us who know ourselves to be imperfect beings. Has there ever been a time that you haven’t wished that you were a little smarter, better looking, stronger, more ‘perfect’ in one way or another. The word perfect is used many times in the scriptures, usually in ways…
On Old Thing, New Meanings
I was sitting in church last Sunday listening to the speaker and he was talking about a subject that I had read over and over and heard speakers speak of it many, many times, but he had put a different twist on it. I hadn’t read the following story before to gather wisdom from it….
On Perspective
It is said that people who look through keyholes are apt to think that most views they have are shaped like keyholes. Their perspective has been shaped by the object they were seeing through. I remember some years back a very common term was, “Birds of a Feather,” referring to people who have many of…
On Holy Curiosity
I remember many years ago as a young person I was doing what most other young persons do, I was coasting through life without too much direction, at least for a little period. What a person did or did not do seemed to matter very little. What difference did it make where we went or…
On The Importance of Every Person
I have developed the habit of trying to attract people’s attention (mostly strangers) so that I can say hello to them. Some of them look at me as if they are thinking, ‘I don’t know you, why are you talking to me?’ My wife and I are always striking up a conversation with strangers on…
On Are Americans Losing Faith
Ben Carson, a former presidential candidate described a very troubling new survey just released by the Pew Research Center, the report found that Americans are giving up on both God and miracles. The study identifies a massive 49-percent of those surveyed as “nones,” or those who don’t identify with a religious group, they say they…