COME BACK, COME AGAIN
Rumi (1207-1273) the poet wrote, “Come, come, whoever you are,Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving—It doesn’t matter.Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you […]
April 2018
MY SOUL WAITS
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice!Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark […]
PURITY OF HEART
Jesus taught that the “pure in heart shall see God.” This is an obvious idea in that nothing that is impure can/could be in the […]
GOSPELS BEFORE ACTS
What is apparent is that the beginning of the church is not at Pentecost, but in the Gospels. Probably the instability of most of church […]
REMEDY FOR THE BARREN HEART
Sophie Scholl (1921-1943) wrote, “The only remedy for a barren heart is prayer, however poor and inadequate… if I can’t write anything else just now, […]
EDENIC NATURE #5
Nakedness has no hiding. The desire of my heart is to so claim the freedom of the cross that my transparent self can be more […]
EDENIC NATURE #4
The forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden represents rules, order, choices, government and someone who has greater rule and reign than we have. In […]
EDENIC NATURE #3
Perhaps if business, medical, technical and service industries could see the connection between our desire for the comfort and belonging to Eden, then they would […]
EDENIC NATURE #2
As we move indoors into our houses, offices, schools, business buildings and such we have the same tendencies to re-create Eden. Our homes and offices […]
EDENIC NATURE #1
Many years ago I developed a theory about the Garden of Eden. I have taught this theory (to me it is no longer a theory, […]