Words enlivened or illuminated in the moment with the wisdom, grace, truth or insight of God.
Our hearts and spirits are formed to receive and be filled with the eternal, unbound, unfettered reality and nature of God. They are placed within us in love, for love, and can only be sustained by love; love in God’s Truth. Yet our character is also formed by the temporal, limited subjective nature of this … More Living From Eternity
Crisis clarifies, crisis confirms, Crisis prioritizes, crisis reveals! Crisis exposes realities. Crisis reveals the truth. How we are in crisis is we ourselves at our core. Through crisis our unproductive baggage may be left behind if we will not survive with it! Even if it was picked up as effective in an earlier crisis, what … More Crisis Clarifies
Love is enough! Money is not, Fame is not, Recognition is not. Love is enough! What brings true satisfaction and peace? What brings well being? Planning does not, thinking does not, fighting does not, Love Does! Love is enough! Nothing else really is enough. Love Is! Love is enough!
Musing on “The Pounding” I received a profound insight regarding what I call “the pounding” a while back. A little background first: My wife is a metal worker and designer of Jewelry, she explained the process of forming metal please consider this: The jeweler uses four elements for the work of shaping metal. 1. The … More The Pounding
A very wise old woman said to me in my youth “You only get the trouble you need”. My very wise wife said to me as I grew in maturity “You trade in your foolishness for wisdom as you grow”. The beauty of trouble is in it we meet our helpers-if we are wise we … More Walking the Paths of the Wise: Finding Beauty in Troubles!
“Up until now” is a great declaration of an end of what came before now. Now life for me is the communication of our true reality one to another. This poem/declaration is about realizations and a determination to maintain a new perspective; purposing to leaving behind common ways many have experienced others and the way … More Up until Now
Maturing; I marvel now at the vast arrogance, vanity, and ignorance of humanity. Humans are amazing creatures, yet prone to profound arrogance and self deception. No matter what your spiritual path to enlightenment you will not see the glory of THE LIGHT until you stop marveling at your own brilliance. Rabbi Shaul said “When … More Don’t be blinded by your own brilliance!
We each make a choice of how we pilot the vehicles of our life. Although many shades of gray between the ways exist in this post we will consider navigating the skies above! I have defined two predominant paths of walking-through life in the previous post on “An Architecture of Peace” (1). … More An Architecture for Peace II
I, me, my, mine; it’s not about me? Really? Who’s it about then? You, them, us, everyone else; all the time? “There’s nothing new under the sun” said some wise guy a long time ago. Nothing happens to you that has not or might not happen to me or others. That’s just the way it … More It’s not about me, really?
The following Poem was written when I was 18 years old in 1980. I jotted it down the first six lines in my journal three weeks before my mother Barbara Jean (Bleacher) Parry was killed as a passenger in a single car accident. She had come for a visit it was to be our … More Our life is a war
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