BLOG Try Some Time “You can’t always get what you want” (The Rolling Stones, 1969). It was true then. It’s true now. It’s always been true. And it will always be true. There’s nothing wrong with wanting. Just as long as you realize that you can’t always get what you want. So, Jesus must …
BLOG Maybe It’s Too Simple? So many people have wondered just why we need God? Why is it that for as long as humanity has been gathering in groups, one of the first things that is created is religion? Why does it seem that all humans know that there is something bigger going on, beyond …
BLOG I Will How many times have you heard someone say “I will”? How many times have you said “I will”? How many times have you, as well as other people, not followed through on those words? They didn’t and you didn’t. Now, there is some legal confusion regarding “I will”. For a personal …
BLOG What If… What if Noah would have said “No”? Would someone else have built the ark? What if Abraham said, “No thank you. I’m happy right here.” Would someone else’s family have entered the Promised Land? What if Moses said, “I don’t want to be the one to set my people free.” Would there …
BLOG Reciprocity Isn’t Hospitality Here’s one for you: Hospitality that finds its purpose, its motivation, in the expectation of repayment, is no hospitality at all. For if this is true, then hospitality will only be shown to people who can do something for you. Likewise, hospitality that finds its purpose, its motivation, in repayment, is …
BLOG Humility or Humiliation Pride, as defined on Dictionary.com, is a high or inordinate opinion of one’s own dignity, importance, merit or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc. It’s not only thinking, but also acting, as if you are all that, and a bag of chips. …
BLOG Living In The Grey There is an age-old debate over nature and nurture. Are you who you are, because that is who have been created to be? Your created nature is the driving force behind everything. Your decisions, your actions, your likes, your dislikes, your fears as well as your strengths are all the …
BLOG The Deeper Do Divisive school board meetings, inflation, war in Ukraine, COVID, systemic racism, politics, climate change, red tide, hurricanes, growing old, poverty and the list goes on and on. All realities that each of us face every single day, whether directly or indirectly. Life is fraught with pitfalls, disappointments and struggles. Most of …
BLOG To All The Cynics Hope is defined as “The feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.” You hope for something that isn’t your reality, in that very moment. It’s the outward and upward look. The glorious promise of a new future. All of which …
BLOG A Balsa Wood Balcony We all like to claim ignorance. We all like to deny culpability. We all enjoy the self-imposed blinders that we have installed in our minds, as we travel through this thing called life. Ignorance is bliss, after all. The saying “Ignorance is bliss” originated in Thomas Gray’s poem …
