Believing it to be just a clump of cells We call it what we want And do what we want We ask… “What do these cells mean to me?” We say… “My body my choice to do whatever I want” Regardless of what my choices produce Or how my choices impact my neighbor. We justContinue reading “Professing Life”
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My God
My God is the creatorOf all creationsOf all creaturesHis creativity has no end Nature in all her gloryTestifies to God’s faithfulnesspeace, patience, gentlenessSelf-control and goodness Even more, to his glory and beautyAnd infinite imaginationWhich is given to us to seeTouch, smell, hear and taste The green grassThe sunshineThe blue skyAre more than sublime They areContinue reading “My God”
Kefir and pancakes
Rain is fallingOn our parched groundWe prayed last nightFor rain to come round It’s been yearsSince I prayed for rainPerhaps, overtimeMy awareness changed See…I movedFrom the farm to the townAnd rain wasn’t on my radarWhere asphalt covered the ground Separated from the creaturesOut of sight of those who sowRain became a distant memoryBecause I forgotContinue reading “Kefir and pancakes”
But I do not love
What happens: If I support the right policies, vote for the right politicians and participate in the right political party but do I not have love… Or If I am pro-life or pro-choice but I do not have love… Or If I keep all the commandments but I do have not love… Perhaps, the sameContinue reading “But I do not love”
The effects of not acting
“As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance… Wallow in it… Write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilising the seeds which [Heavenly Father] plants in a human soul… Do anything but act. No amount ofContinue reading “The effects of not acting”
The Only Sober One
“33Do not go astray: “Bad associations corrupt good customs.” 34Become sober, in upright fashion, and do not sin; for some harbor ignorance of God. Shame on you,” the Bible “When someone after having sought for a long time has made himself finitely secure, he swears by laying his hand on the book that bids usContinue reading “The Only Sober One”
Pro-Life Boycotts
I would like to add to the growing list of businesses to boycott since we are pro life. 1) Because “Unhealthy diet contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths each year in the U.S., due to nutrition- and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes.1 In the last 30 years, obesity rates haveContinue reading “Pro-Life Boycotts”
Murdering Creation
“To be convinced of the sanctity of the world, and to be mindful of a human vocation to responsible membership in such a world, must always have been a burden. But it is a burden that falls with greatest weight on us humans of the industrial age who have been and are, by any measure,Continue reading “Murdering Creation”
Christian, Conservative and Liberal
I am more conservativeThan most conservativesAnd more liberalThan most liberals Christianly speaking, I am less ChristianThan most ChristiansAnd a worse sinner than most sinners.Strangely enough, this might actually reveal that I am in desperate need of a liberal amount of God’s restraining grace, steadfast love, mercy and forgiveness. I have to admit that, more thanContinue reading “Christian, Conservative and Liberal”
Treebeard’s wisdom
Treebeard marched on…. But after a time his voice… fell silent again…. [His] old brow was wrinkled and knotted. At last he looked up, and Pippin could see a sad look in his eyes, sad but not unhappy. There was a light in them, as if the green flame had sunk deeper into the darkContinue reading “Treebeard’s wisdom”