“If I loose my grip… will I take flight…???” (Lyrics from Stange Waters by Bruce Cockburn) We cling and cling and cling… but nothing that we try to grasp… can be grasped. Can we hold the mist? Can we possess the wind? We know that these things cannot be held on to. It seems silly… [Read more…]
February 25, 2012
Suppose… just suppose that life might not be so much about “what’s right” and “what’s wrong” as it is about “what is in the heart”, “what is possible” and “what could be”? Suppose… just suppose that there is more to life than what meets the eye? THE FAÇADE What if? Life doesn’t unfold in a… [Read more…]
February 9, 2012
“…Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says,… [Read more…]
August 17, 2011
“Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who spent the years 1942-45 in four different Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. By the end of the war his pregnant wife, his parents and his brother had been murdered; among his immediate family, only he and his sister survived. After the war he published Man’s Search for Meaning,… [Read more…]
January 8, 2011
For many years, I’ve struggled with finding meaning in Christmas. A quick study of the history of the holiday shows a similar struggle around the world; among Christians (the Puritans banned Christmas in Boston in the 1600s) and governments (US Government didn’t recognize it until the late 1700s and it didn’t become a federal holiday… [Read more…]
November 19, 2008
Pro 8:1 Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? Pro 8:2 On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she stands. Pro 8:3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entry doors, she cries aloud: Pro 8:10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; Knowledge… [Read more…]
November 19, 2008
“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.” No matter how much adversity and pain we are going through, there is always someone that has experienced much much worse. These people can bring us new ways of seeing; new perspectives on life, meaning, pain, and joy. From… [Read more…]
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