THE PARENT
A parent is a mother or father. Things that act as the source or owner of something else are also parents, like a parent company that owns the local bookshop. The […]
Journals
LOVE IS GOD
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) wrote in ‘Mere Christianity’ “All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God is love’. But they […]
THE TRINITARIAN PRAYER
In a dream I saw “The Trinitarian Prayer.” It went like this: Place your thumb between your forefinger and middle finger…Pray to the Father Place […]
LITTLE BY LITTLE
“He who despises small things will fail little by little.” (The Apocryphal Book of Sirach 19:1) Those who fall little by little will eventually fall […]
THE ROAD TO LIFE
Common herd thinking will excuse and justify many things; like morality, position, honesty, character, and judgment into herd consensus, but that does not make it […]
CAREFUL WALKING
Those who have sentimental ideas about the attractiveness of sheep are simply people who have never been around them. Sheep are unstable, easily frightened, moving […]
THE IN CROWD
Everyone likes to be with the ‘in crowd,’ or rather is afraid not to be. The power of popular opinion is far-reaching. Many of us […]
THE NARROWEST GATE
There is no way to approach the idea of life without considering Jesus’ bold and unnatural comment, “He who has found his life shall lose […]
LOVE DOES GREAT THINGS
Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471) author and scribe wrote, “Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting […]
GOD LOVES EVERYONE
There is a cultural concept that God loves everyone regardless whether we love in return. This is of course true because we are not really […]