God looks for expressions of love and finding them likes to abide there the divine lover hovering around them like a hummingbird extracting the nectar thereof and feasting upon the sweetnesses like a connoiseur distinguishing as my wife distinguishes perhaps between actual flowers and plastic artificial feeders. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Our Little Brother Ants
These ants couldn’t care less if it’s Saturday or Sunday. They take no sabbath nor require one as they swarm in to make quick work of the pumpkinbread crumbs. Just when you think you’ve seen the last of them, here comes another wave…and another. Now there are slight tickling sensations under my clothes even! It’s … Continue reading
Bookend Generations
“How exciting it would’ve been to have been alive at the time of Jesus and actually laid eyes on him!” Ever heard that statement? Yet there is a time to have been alive that rivals that, and it may be now. Though you and I may not see Jesus’ return in our own lifetime there … Continue reading
The Strange Case Within The Case
My guitar had a string replaced and was newly-tuned in the process. Funny thing about that though, it now vibrates differently, making it sound like a sitar. It seems to be building a case within its case for accompanying me on the next likely trip, which, oh, just happens to be……India. Continue reading
The Coin in the Fountain of Truth
As a physicist wisely said, both recently and decently, “Science and faith are two sides of the same coin.” Where these sides appear to clash it is due to our miscommunication or misinterpretation of facts, or the omission of facts altogether. All truth meets at the top in other words famously put by another scientist, … Continue reading
Not So Fatal Attraction
There were two young friends nearing middled (muddled) age, a man and a woman attracted to one another, clearly if not equally attracted to one another. The young man made no advances until one day the young woman began to think what her culture was teaching her to think: ‘Is there something wromg with me? … Continue reading
How Not to come unHinged
Never rush through the formation of such a thing as a hinge, so much hangs upon it, you see. And so much turns because of it. Continue reading
Non-virulent Violence
“Don’t hurt them, boys’ said the clergyman who had come to bless the local football team before their big game. “Don’t you dare hurt them, but do inflict just enough pain so they can’t quite perform at their best!” Continue reading
Circles Dark and Light
We all know that dark circles under the eyes are not a good sign. They show wear and tear. They show that someone is struggling with something or things to such a degree that it begins to affect sleep, and is compounded by the further worry that the sleep is being lost, thus building upon … Continue reading
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