Prayer is a very personal and individual exercise of one’s faith. When I see people pray in a restaurant, for example, I sometimes think, why am I not doing that? Or I listen to someone in church pray with such sincerity and obvious love for the Father that I think, why don’t I pray like…
Tag: Heavenly Father
On Hard Things
When Adam and Eve transgressed and were asked to leave the Garden of Eden, I wonder if either of them had any idea what the Father was saying to them. “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall…
On The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
I remember listening to the song, “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald” on the radio years ago, and I thought, what a haunting and yet beautiful song. Gordon Lightfoot sang it in a powerful way, and about every five or six years, I will hear it again. And again, I am haunted by that tragic…
On The Kingdom of God
Many of us may have wondered what heaven is like. There have been those who have apparently died and were later revived; some of these have thought that they went to heaven. Many of them described having similar experiences during that interim period. The common remembrance is seeing a very bright light and possibly going…
On Satan’s Powerful Influence
In our pre-earth existence we were spirits formed from intelligent matter through a birth process of which earthly births are patterned after. We are the offspring of a heavenly and eternal couple, and we progressed in that pre-earth state, in the presence of our parents. We were to a point of maturity where further progress…
On Good and Evil
From a website called Philosophy of Religion, it was stated that “God’s creation was originally good, but then the first man, Adam, sinned. As a result of this Fall, sin entered the world, and now all suffer the affliction of original sin. This doctrine is an important part of the Christian tradition: not only does it exonerate…
On No Matter How Real or On Intelligence
I am often amazed at the capacity of the human mind. If a human can think it, a human can do it, with few exceptions. The most interesting thing about that thought is the converse. Just because you can think it, doesn’t mean that you have to or should do it. Most everything that I…
On Suicide
Suicide is one of the most devastating events that can happen within a family. Each member of the family may feel it was their fault. If they had only been more affectionate, more willing to listen, able to spend more time with their sister, their brother, etc. They also have to deal with the empty…
On He Knows Me
One of the most difficult concepts for most Christian people to understand is the idea that the Father of us all and His son, Jesus Christ, knows each of us individually. When we contemplate the billions of people who have and will habi- tat this earth before the end, it is absolutely mind boggling to…
On Wake Up Calls
Wake-up calls may have nothing to do with getting up in the morning, but rather they can come to us at any time of the day and even at anytime of our lives. They may even come at times when we need to be reminded to change course before we get ourselves in trouble or…