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Continue reading →: World
Not only circumference but an orb of circumstantial evidence. What keeps us from flinging into thin air, breathless to the pin drop darkness? Every spinning and expanding island riding on predestination. What keeps us from bringing a thin air of presumption? What great expanse of reason finds its…
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Continue reading →: Where Are My Shoes? Where’s Waldo? Where’s My Mind?
I am getting a revolving door installed for my bedroom. The ‘I’m leaving for work’ ritual is like a scene from Everybody Loves Raymond. Yesterday the final key to departure…shoes. I kissed my wife Barbara goodbye and then the games began. The minimum returns to bedroom base camp are three.…
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Continue reading →: When God Speaks Love. Listen to this.
The memory of a cold, windy, raining day resurfaced today. She said in her blog God doesn’t always speak to us in a booming voice. It seems in these times God would only be heard in such a tone. It’s loud down here with all the news networks, overloaded stadiums,…
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Continue reading →: Charlie Brown = Jesus…Better punt that idea before Lucy gets ahold of it.
Could Jesus have succumbed to a Charlie Brown attitude? The Scribes and the Pharisees often would hold the football for him to kick. Jesus never attempted the running toward the football held by the Lucy’s of the time. Instead he magically switched places with the cunning and held the…
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Continue reading →: Wish Upon a Stare. Stars and perspective.
Have you ever stared at a star, not for its brilliance or beauty, but because you thought it might not be a star? You get an inkling it might be moving. It is set so far off in the expanse that you can’t tell if it is twinkling or blinking.…
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Continue reading →: Pop Quiz. What is the definition of impunity?
“You can lie to a building; you cannot lie to a person with impunity.” Ravi Zacharias “Alone, we cannot face ‘the mystery of iniquity’ with impunity. Only Christ can overcome the powers of evil. Only in and through him can we survive the trials of our solitude.” Henry Nouwen These…
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Continue reading →: New Year’s Blues…”Woke Up This Mornin’…” Thoughts On A New Year.
Cliff diving any one? I am not saying go jump off a cliff. While Congress clenched their fiscals we came to the end of the year surrounded by life, liberty and the pursuit of happenings. There is evidence lying/laying everywhere including teenage girls strewn about on our basement floor. Our…
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Continue reading →: Stones In Hand
Are stones for throwing? I threw them at miniature plastic tanks and army men. The images on CNN framed grown men heaving stones at armor and assault rifled soldiers. We were boys once. Mr. Johnson across the street taught me to search for rolling rocks. The roundest rocks…
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Continue reading →: First Communion: The Crux of the Matter.
It rose like a round wafer, magnified on the chilled horizon. I heard the deep Bishop voice… “Body of Christ.” I gazed at the moon. “Amen.” The Eucharist suspended in my imagination a remembrance. A fear filled day of consumption. I swallowed Jesus. Like…
Gerald the Writer 