Sometimes, Round Two: Day 41 of 365 – The End As The Beginning!
Sometimes The End Is Just The Beginning! Most of the time the end is the end. Books end. Movies end. Plays end. Work projects end. Relationships end. You get the picture. Lots of things end in this life. Even life ends in the way we know it. But how would things change if we were […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 40 of 365 – The Quiet Inside!
Sometimes The Quiet In The Mind Drowns Out The Noise In The World! Peace and Quiet! How we long for those gifts from time-to-time. The Noise of the World overwhelms and inundates! Finding a quiet place for retreat very often escapes our search. Everywhere we turn, Noise assaults us! What are we to do? Well, […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 33 of 365 – A Single Act of Kindness!
Sometimes A Single Act Of Kindness Planted In The Soul Of Another Bears Fruit In Multiple Future Generations! A Ripple Effect accompanies most if not all actions, regardless of their intent or nature. Choices are rarely if ever made in a vacuum. Someone, somewhere experiences the effects of decisions at some point. The actions, reactions […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 31 of 365 – Untested Bias!
Sometimes We Reject Verifiable Truth To Protect Our Untested Bias! We live in strange times! It seems that whenever people say things with which we do not agree, we cry “Fake!” Often, when news organizations report stories either in print or on air that rub us the wrong way, we cry “Fake!” Frequently when facts […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 20 of 365 – Hope, Chaos and Dreams!
Sometimes Hope Punches Through The Chaos That Surrounds Us And Breathes Life Into Our Battered Dreams! We all have dreams! Dreams are what drive us. Dreams are what keep us focused. Dreams help give life meaning. Dreams can also create distress, especially when chaos surrounds them and threatens to choke them into nothingness. Dreams tend […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 18 of 365 – The Youth of the Soul Within!
Sometimes The Age Of The Body Without Belies The Youth Of The Soul Within! We are so obsessed with the body! We spend multiple millions (and perhaps billions) of dollars every year on the carrying case for who we really are! We have a love affair with the facade! We worship the chassis! We wash […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 17 of 365 – When Light Enshrouds Darkness!
When Light Enshrouds Darkness Sometimes Light Enshrouds Darkness In A Fanciful Facade Of Deception; Therefore We Must Test All Sources Prior To Proclaiming Final Allegiance! Now that’s a mouthful! Light! Darkness! Deception! Testing! Proclamations! Allegiance! I could probably write an entire article about every one of of those words but I won’t. At least not […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 16 of 365 – The Verbosity of Silence!
Sometimes Silence Says More Than A Thousand Words! Words, words, words! We are inundated and overwhelmed by a tsunami of words! They flood and flow from all directions and from multiple sources! Some words are worth listening to and some . . . well, let’s just say they are better used as birdcage linings (and […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 14 of 365 – The Precipice of Pain!
Sometimes Pain Pushes Us Perilously Close To The Precipice… But Grace Pulls Us Back! Pain is a part of life. In fact, sometimes pain is the evidence of life. Whenever we experience pain of any kind – mental, emotional, relational. physical or spiritual – it reminds us that we are active in this thing called […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 11 of 365 – The Mistakes We Make!
Sometimes The Mistakes We Make Have A Longer Half Life Than We Wish! Mistakes! We all make ’em! From time-to-time, we all wish that we could take back the words said or the deeds done. We have all found ourselves standing in the middle of the stage under the spotlight, blinded by the knowledge that […]