Posts Tagged ‘life lessons’
Empire Medals: Why the Pursuit of Worldly Prizes Means Nothing
Last week President Biden awarded nineteen recipients with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors. As one might expect, there was “outrage” from those…
Read MoreSo, This is Christmas at Fifty-Eight
I love the Christmas season. It’s a sensual spectacle for my soul. The yummy treats that appear only once a year, even if my appetite for them is a year-round event. The power of light to pierce the short December days and even longer December nights. The glorious music. The profane and holy, both speaking…
Read MoreBuying, Moving and Owning Nothing
For the last three weeks of my life, everything has been about moving, money and materials. Cardboard boxes, clear packaging tape and cylinders of bubble wrap. The latter as much for the cat as it is for those items we’ve deemed fragile. Our cat not among the fragile, but the treasured. Navigating a regulatory real…
Read MoreReflections on Aging, Life and Death at Fifty-Eight
We are born into an earthly existence that is measured in milestones, memories and moments. A process that begins at birth; recording our arrival time and location. A process that ends with death; recording our departure time and location. Our lives bookended by numbers that simply state our commencement and our closure as the dearly departed.
Read MoreA Faith of Fear vs A Life of Love
I was blessed to be raised by parents who sincerely believe in God, and who surely believe in the unconditional love of God. A Christian home rooted in the ethic of love God and ALL your neighbors. The commandment in which the law, the prophets and the entire ministry of Jesus is summarized. Even though…
Read MoreCh-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Learning to Trust in God Alone
Full of repentance and humility; thankfulness and gratitude; peace and love; I fully surrendered myself to God. To live a new life. A life of love that tries to honor God and all people, including people resistant to God’s unconditional love and unyielding grace like I once was.
Read MoreWhy Can’t God Just Tell Us What To Do? Well, At Least Me
Like millions of other faith filled people, I just want God to tell me what I need to do; now. I’d also be good with knowing my future. Equating divine Love as a cosmic fortune teller even if God has already shared with all of us our future.
Read MoreIt Really is About the Content You Keep
We live in a culture drowning in sound and pictures. We are inundated with advertisements and pleas to buy this thing or that experience. Based on the false premise that it will change our life, or allow us to keep up with the Joneses or the Kardashians.
Read MoreDoubt and Faith and Doubt
While I deeply believe that God will provide, living my faith has been unsettling.
Read MoreRain and Gain
As much as we try and avoid the rain, it sustains life. Without it plants would wither, animals would become parched, and we would not grow. Moreover, we would die.
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