The only people that really know our young lives are our parents. Whatever vague recollections I have from my early earthly days cannot compete with the vibrant remembrances my parents vividly recall. They know more about my early life even if I am the original owner (actually God is the owner of all life). My […]
Tag Archives: love
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Aug
Aug
Like every well-versed Sunday schooler, I learned about Moses and the fickle faith of God’s chosen people. Even after miracle after miracle, they still did not trust in God. Consequently, they wandered for forty years in the wilderness. A story I thought I faithfully comprehended, until I foolishly followed in their footsteps. As a child […]
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Aug
Aug
How we understand the world is how we understand ourselves, others and our faith; and yes, we all have a faith, even the most ardent atheist or apathetic agnostic. Every human needs purpose and perseverance to prevent a life of pointlessness. When we lack meaning in our lives we become lost in a despair of […]
25
Jul
Jul
As summer signals its send-off and autumn announces its arrival, the earthly equipment we employ to measure time will mark the conclusion of my sixtieth year in this here and now. A birthday milestone I could never even imagine thirty years ago. A birthday marker that too many of my friends never realized; their lives […]
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Jun
Jun
We all want to believe that by and large we’re a good person. Maybe; but probably not as good as we believe. It’s not that humans are bad per se, but it’s more nuanced. Humans, like all of creation, are pronounced good by God. Every person conceived in love and custom-made to love. Love that’s […]
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Apr
Apr
There have been millions of words written and thousands of pictures painted that try to capture the essential essence of the human experience. Often these themes highlight our passions, such as adoration and abhorrence, greed and generosity, and death and deliverance. And yet, every book and painting remains outside of ourselves regardless of its impact […]
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Mar
Mar
At fifty-nine, I know I’m blessed to have the gift of time and the means necessary to allow me to pursue my heart’s passions as opposed to my past profession. This allows me to think a lot about whatever this is. This being life or awareness of this reality; whatever that means. This or that […]
14
Feb
Feb
The America I live in is physically ill, psychologically troubled and spiritually purposeless. Unanchored to any moral bedrock; unsecured to any ethical foundation. We’re a culture in deep despair and disappearing into death. Drowning in a sea of moral relativism and dying in ethical quicksand. Love is no longer the ultimate moral action but a […]
02
Aug
Aug
I know I am a blessed man even as my body breaks down; battered and burdened by time. My life measured in decades of days. An earthy existence that’s eluded millions and millions of my brothers and sisters who never attained the years I have been given in this dimension. As I near the last […]
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May
May
It has been said, “A person dies twice: once when they take their final breath, and later, the last time their name is spoken.” This quote has been attributed to everyone from Banksy to Hemingway to someone only known as anonymity. The latter being an ironic example of irony that lends integrity to this insight. As […]