Get educated and you will become useful. Ok. I did that and found myself useless. Get popular and you will find happiness. I did that and had to hide, popular apparently has a negative side. Fit in and you will find peace. But I saw where the masses are headed, who wants to plunge off … Continue reading
Endlessly Less
A man speaks, “There is no God.” Yet the man “spoke words.” A ball says, “I am not flying.” While it unwittingly obeys the desire of he who threw it. Another man says, “I will obey truth according to my own will.” While “according” holds its own definition. Better to accept that we are “less”. … Continue reading
The Humiliation of Doubt
C. S. Lewis, in his book “The Problem of Pain”, speaks of the difference between a fear of fleshly harm and that of spiritual harm. If there were a tiger about to attack us we would feel a certain fear. But if we were told there was a ghost about to harm us we would … Continue reading
Warning From the Season
The trees are losing their leaves. A sure sign that the snows and ice of winter are approaching. Even so, men are aware of the coming danger in life. You will either clothe yourself and prepare for what is coming, or you will suffer the consequences through sickness and death. This set of signs, in … Continue reading
He Did Not Ask
He did not ask. The question never crossed his mind. He had never seen red, let alone to consider the subtle difference between red and orange. Dirt had no color at all. And, beyond the reach of his fingers, the world was filled with utterly ghostly challenges. Textured blackness was all he knew. Noise and … Continue reading
I Stand by the Door
I Stand at the Door An Apologia for my Life By Sam Shoemaker (from the Oxford Group) I stand by the door. I neither go to far in, nor stay to far out. The door is the most important door in the world – It is the door through which men walk when they find … Continue reading
