Being quick to frustration or anger is a mortal sin. It is a sin in that it shows the pride in self that feels disgruntled at having something not go according to one’s own choice or desire. To become frustrated, as minor as it may appear, tells of the inner desire to control one’s own… Continue reading forgiveness of self…
Month: June 2022
what could possibly go wrong? Part 2…
So the trip out was filled with adventure. Then we finally found the road to our new property. If you can call it a road. Gravel… Endless gravel. Everywhere you looked. Gravel. Roads full of the stuff. Very popular out here. Quite a change from what we were used to. The paved ones were just… Continue reading what could possibly go wrong? Part 2…
what could possibly go wrong? Part 1…
We all felt led to move at the same time. Far away from our home. An adventure, right? Not so fast… The title to one of the acres was, we discovered, still in the former owner’s name. And we couldn’t locate her anywhere. After four months. No clear title? no house sale. And we had… Continue reading what could possibly go wrong? Part 1…
awareness…
As I was praying this morning, I became acutely aware of something that comes to the surface from time to time throughout my life. Awareness. Who am I? Really? Is what I see through my eyes and experiences really what everyone else sees or experiences about their own world in their own way? Or is… Continue reading awareness…
paper maps…
It is hard to believe that very few people know how to read paper maps. With the silly directions from Google and other GPS systems that take people straight through lakes, off boat ramps, and onto airplane runways, you’d think that people would use either common sense, or use a paper map as a backup… Continue reading paper maps…
suffering…
Suffering. It’s something none of us like to endure. We all instinctively try to run from it. And we questions the reason for its existence
Suffering. It has a purpose. It is a spiritual one. And it is a necessary one. One to which the purpose holds the greatest gift deep within its pain.
hills and valleys of life…
Life is filled with emotional battles. We have our ups and downs, our hills and valleys of life along the way. Sometimes it seems like we have more downs than ups. More failures than successes. But life isn’t measured by the number of times that things aren’t going well. It is measured in how we… Continue reading hills and valleys of life…
what happened to our sense of humor?
Has anyone else noticed how hard it is to view anything as humorous in our world today? Stereotypical actions of children, silly cats falling into fish tanks, birds fighting their reflections in windows, resulting fails from people who think themselves better than they really are at something…If we laugh, we are told we are being… Continue reading what happened to our sense of humor?