Youth emerge from their infancy pretty much instinctively. With encouragement from parents and other siblings we learn to walk and talk and begin to ‘become,’ with very little or no conscious thought to the process. Yes, we express pride with a gleeful smile or laugh when we can first run and stay upright but it…
Tag: God
On Who’s Watching Me
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…
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 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 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…
On Being A Child of God
We each have parents, a mother and a father who brought us into this world, gave us this clay structure that houses our spirit. We are their child; they love us and care for us, often as one of several in the family. However, most of us never think about what came before the clay?…
On Good Without God?
Is there a possibility of good in this world without God? My answer is, Of course there is good without God. Evil has been described as the absence of God or good. There are pockets of evil wherever one goes as well as pockets of good wherever one goes. I have become acquainted with many…