Every child born to this earth is born with physical, cognitive and social restrictions because of his infant state. But there is a spirit inside that child that tries, from the very beginning, to cast off his restrictions, as he is able to break away from the things that bind. Each utterance and each forward…
Tag: Earth
On No Ordinary People
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest, most uninteresting person, you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw their future now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. It is in the light of these overwhelming…
On Life is Fragile
William Jennings Bryan probably explained death and its purpose best when he said, “Because of the fall- death has come to be the universal heritage; it may claim its victims in infancy or youth, in the period of life’s prime, or its summons may be deferred until the snows of age have gathered upon the…
On Good Judgment and Good Advice
Someone has said: ‘Good judgment comes from experience. And experience comes from bad judgment.’ For us to awake each morning happy and confident, we probably didn’t need to do anything spectacular. We just needed to remember the ordinary glories we enjoy of life and love. When we open our eyes in the morning we have…
On Heaven or Hell on Earth
The Heaven or Hell of which theologians teach can be no better or worse than the heaven or hell which we, the children of the Almighty, often create for ourselves right here on earth. We just have to realize how well we have been taken care of, taken care of and blessed by a world…
On War and Peace
In February of 1953, on my nineteenth birthday, I was drafted to become a soldier in the United States Army to serve during the Korean Conflict. When a person is drafted into the service, his employer is obligated to save his job for him, so that when the conflict is over and he is discharged,…
On Just Not the Whole Truth/or Exaggeration
Have you ever pretended to be someone else to get information you needed or wanted? I remember laying in the hospital knowing or believing I was going to get to go home that day and yet it was sneaking up on the afternoon already and nobody had come by. I so wanted to do what…
On The Wisdom of ‘Job’
I very much enjoy reading the back and forth discussions between Job (Old Testament) and his friends. Job was a very wise and wealthy man; a God fearing man. During Job’s time, “the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. Satan came also among them. The Lord said unto Satan, “Whence comest…
On Preparation
As a youth in the 1930’s and 1940’s, preparation never crossed my mind once. Even though it hadn’t crossed my mind either as a word or as a process, I was able to watch it happening on a day to day bases, without realizing it. We had a large family with eight children. I watched…
On Interdependence
My wife and I decided to go for a ride out to a nearby island that is geographically located in the middle of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The lake has diminished in size due to years of drought-like conditions. The Great Salt Lake has no outlets and it is dependent on evaporation and…