“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

—Emily Dickinson

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  • Coming to Terms with Not Having All the Answers

    There are several bald spots on my metaphorical head from metaphysical head scratching. Mind baffles have frequently made me drowsy to the point of stupor. Not everything adds up because, to embrace everything, one must also embrace unknowns and unknowns… Continue reading

  • Psalm 19:1-2

    Psalm 19:1-2 The heavens tell the glory of God. Continue reading

  • Tom Sims

    via www.facebook.com Though I write and post daily on Facebook, I have not blogged since June. I know my blog posts end up on Facebook. This is an experiment to see if it can work both ways. Check out my… Continue reading

  • Some Thoughts on Laughter

    Laughter us a great gift for celebration, not a weapon of denigration. It is the natural spill-over of the joy that wells up inside of us and in response to surprise, absurdity, and silly wonder. It can be an offering… Continue reading

  • “Teach me to pray,” is also a prayer.

    The longer I live, the more, not less, I make the same request to the Master, "Teach me to pray," sometimes realizing that such a request is also a prayer. If I can pray no other in the moment, for… Continue reading

  • A Review of the Preview and Presented Premise of “A Madman or Something Worse.”

    Peter Brietbart, of Brighton, in England, is a writer for the Freethinker Magazine and a self described, skeptic, atheist, humanist, secularist and President of Sussex University Secular Society." That is fine. He is also a budding film make on a… Continue reading

  • Pentecost

    Tongues of fire descended … and something individual happened. Lighting upon each …dividing … They united all in one Spirit. A paradoxical contradiction connected multiple languages,traditions, and customs into curious Oneness. What could not be achieved by ingenuity,invention, or inquisitive cogitations… Continue reading

  • God’s Not Finished

    I see that Harold Camping, a man for whom I experienced a couple of days of deep sympathy, is at it again – revising his dates, missing the point (The point being that this is not about points, that the… Continue reading

  • Divided Amercia

    There is much talk about the rift in American life – left and right – blue and red – on and on. I was watching a report from a major news source where the commentators were suggesting that it is… Continue reading

  • Prayers for the President

    “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and… Continue reading