“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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Latest Posts

  • C.L.I.M.B.

    "To climb steep hills … requires slow pace at first." – Shakespeare The bard was right. Climbing is difficult and arduous, but it is the only way up. Whether we climb quickly or slowly, it is a process. As Jonathan… Continue reading

  • Dreaming and Living

    Death is natural. Some things should die. All things shall die. But that which dreams is still alive. If there is even a flicker of a dream, fan it to a flame. As long as you are dreaming, you are… Continue reading

  • The Moral of the Story

    “‘Tut, tut child,'” said the Duchess. ‘Everythings got a moral if only you can find it.'” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Continue reading

  • A Rest?

    Given the fact that not all people have the exact same political convictions (not even all solid Evangelical Christians), that our country is more important than our individual views, and that we have been through a nasty, hostile, and polarizing… Continue reading

  • Peace

    Peace cannot be defined by what it is not. It is not the absence of conflict. It is more. It is not the cessation of violence. It is that which creates an atmosphere where violence cannot exist. Peace is well… Continue reading

  • Profundities – Number 1

    If I ever write a book of profound thoughts, it will be a collection of deep thinking collected in unlikely places like the thought that passed through my hollow, shallow brain the other day in the locker room at the… Continue reading

  • Angry Voters

    I hear a lot about so-called angry voters this year and frankly I either have not met them or have been insensitive to them so that I did not notice their seething or the steam coming out of their nostrils. Continue reading

  • To Bless

    What does it mean "to bless?" How do we bless? Here is an acronym for what it might mean for us to bless others. B = Being. We first bless by being who and what we are. It is our… Continue reading

  • Kyrie Eleison

    via www.youtube.com Lord, Have Mercy! I pray this often. Sometimes it is when I am lifting weights. It seems a little heavy. I stop, breath, and pray. Then I do it, drawing from that which is beyond myself. My physical… Continue reading

  • The Tongue in the Cheek

    My tongue became enlodged in my cheek  in yesterday's posting … It took some doing, but … We were able to extract it … Though still a bit sore … And gravitating toward the cheek … I think it has… Continue reading

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