<…A heart and mind searching for truth in a lying, fallen world.
There is a character in the book (Father Elijah) I am reading, who saves David’s life (later Father Elijah) when he is a young Jewish boy in the Warsaw ghetto, being pursued by German soldiers. In the end, after they…
Our power was down all last night from the ice and didn’t get back on until after four this morning, so I will be little late with my meditation from yesterday. I have been reading an interesting book, Father Elijah,…
Monday. Today, we begin the first full week of Lent and already I am having problems completing these meditations. I have not written on this blog with this kind of discipline since last Lent and with everything that is going…
Traditionally Sundays are not part of Lent, they are break from the discipline, a brief peak into Easter, initially so far off on the horizon. They are a rest days, a true break fast, which is where the word breakfast…
Sometimes I have started my Lenten discipline with a specific purpose, such as last year when I focused on the meaning of love. Yet even then I never knew where those efforts would take me. This year I had no…
This Lent seems to be starting off on what to some people is a morbid topic: death. However, while death can be a scary topic, since becoming a Christian I have always seen it as a gift. Let me explain….
Continuing with the theme expressed in yesterday’s Ash Wednesday posting, the inevitability of death, I thought it might be interesting to think about how our eventual demise influences how we see the purpose of our life and why we should…
Today is day one of my 2008 Lenten observance. For several years I have recorded my daily Lenten observations on this blog, partly as a Lenten discipline, but mostly to share my thoughts with others going through the same exercise….
“For it is a sin against the reason to tell men that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive; and when once they believe it, they travel hopefully no longer.” C. K. Chesterton The modern concept of a journey’s…
The rule of law under God (how this country was founded) means we have absolutes to guide, correct, and administrate our legal system. Some things are inalienable. The rule of law under man (where this country is being taken) means…
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