The friend I was telling you about with whom I've had the discussions about whether one can indeed be a "closet" Christian exemplifies Christ's teachings about how we should live more than any other person I've ever known. Yet I long had serious doubts about the "autheniticity," if you will, of this person's actions in [...]
I'm back to not one, but two exclamation points here in my heading this morning, so aren't y'all impressed with yourselves? You should be. I had 11 comments left to my "blahs" post with very encouraging words and lots of positive thoughts and ideas for a rapid recovery.It all worked. Today is a two exclamation [...]
You must go to this link at Digital Journalist to read about and to see "The Ordeal of Ted Jackson" from it's December 2005 issue online. It is overwhelming in scope just as Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee breaks afterward were. Ted offers his own deeply emotional words and thoughts, too, in video [...]
Even when I was so deathly (truly) ill a couple of weeks ago, I was able to sit out on the deck of our high-perched cabin deck (some 400 feet above the river below) for a short while in the sun and shoot this photo of the elk below on the hillside (look closely) [...]
I must be fair to the chaplain today and offer his side of the story after raking him over the coals, so to speak, last post. As I see his side, of course, since I didn't have the chance to talk with him about it or his actions (or inactions, as the case may be). [...]
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.Thomas Merton My stay [...]
"Dream as if you'll live foreve, live as if you'll die today." - James DeanI found that quote on a poster of James Dean at Clines' Corners Souvenir/Tourist/Gas Station/Diner place (and a real sight to behold, let me tell you) on old Route 66 (now Interstate 40) smack dab in the middle of New Mexico [...]
Let me ask you a question. Perhaps in an effort to get myself off the hook, but I'm not sure of the answer either way, really. Both have their pitfalls in my estimation.Is it enough for me to be cognizant of my own predilection and propensity to specific sins in thought and pray about those [...]