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Serenity Thwarted

We are prisoners in a broken culture.

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Ephemeral

I’m not sure whether or not there are dogs in heaven. But If they are not there, I’m not really interested in visiting.

I Will Survive

If I did one thing wrong, he was not averse to smacking me upside the head, or so I thought.

The Winter of My Discontent

VACTERL occasionally gives you a little break. Though you may have an onerous lists of tasks required to keep your child happy and healthy, you get into an offbeat rhythm that mimics normal life. You find a place of serenity and you think that you have beaten back the deadly predators. But really you are […]

Legacy Code

I had my Imagine meeting this morning. It was our second to the last meeting. Not sure what comes next, but I’m open to possibilities. We are reading the book Naked Spirituality by Brian McLaren. I had procrastinated all week and as of noon yesterday, I had not read the second half of the book […]

Imagine, part 6

Crash! I preface this post with a couple of thoughts. It is impossible for me to put into words how much I love my son. He inspires me daily. Let me be clear I do not in any way, shape or form blame him for what happened to me. What follows is purely the result […]

Imagine, part 3

Four Years in the Desert Young adulthood kicked off with the end of college. By some miracle, I graduated from Bethany on time with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. I wanted to go to grad school to become a therapist, but my student loan dept (modest by today’s standards) freaked me out. I needed a […]

Turn or Burn

My world has been rocked this week. I found out about a scandal at my workplace. It is really bothering me. If the allegations are true, this individual did some pretty “Immoral” stuff. This is my question: Do we have to have a God to behave morally? It seems to me that morality and spirituality […]

Warped Perspective

I have a twisted relationship with the news media. I hate it. Absolutely hate it. Yet I cannot ignore it. If I go a couple of days without seeing the news, I get antsy. Watching the news is a cancer on my soul. Every night it is a concentrated dose of the worst evil that […]

Gimme that Ole Time Religion?

There is an old song called “Give Me That Old Time Religion.” It goes as follows: Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, It’s good enough for me. Here is my question: To which religion does the writer refer? The religion where humanity was cursed for wanting […]