A Stroll Through The Archives

There's nothing like someone saying, "You know better than this" to make you wonder what you ever did to make them think so.

  I've learned this about making a good first impression -- that obviously trying to do so works better than obviously not.

If I choose to believe that we're all God's children, it's because I'm darn sure it's all or none.

A phrase you hear a lot these days is, "You're overthinking this," which, to be honest, is not something I've noticed to be that widespread a problem.

I don't know if love conquers all, but it conquers the hard part, and a little forgiveness usually does for the rest.

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What skeptic has not, in the dark of despair

Or the shadow of anguish and grief,

Sent out from his heart a questing prayer

To the God of his disbelief?

Me And My Shadow

 

How do you prove to a skeptic that God exists?  How do you prove do your shadow that the sun exists?

This sun you speak of, my shadow asks,

 This invisible light in the skies,

Why does it never reveal itself?

Why does it hide from my eyes?

This thing you say created me, 

This lantern somewhere above,

Why do I never feel its warmth?

Where, for me, is its love?

How to my shadow do I respond?

How, when the day is done,

To a shadow vanishing into the night

Do you prove there exists a sun?

Of Life, Love and Recollection

Perhaps, because life is but a moment, it is insignificant, or, perhaps, because life is but a moment, it is momentous.

You spend years learning what's important and one heart-stopping moment learning what's more important.

It is said that you only get one life.  Actually, you get only one birth and one death.  How many lives you squeeze in is up to you.

 

Love can be a conversation about nothing, or it can be a quiet comfort in each other's presence that is about everything.

What we see in an old family photo is not just a still moment in time but a moment when there was still time.

Ah, nostalgia!  We live our days in the glare of the sun and recall them in the glow of the moon.

from Reflections

As Deep As I Get

There are things the human mind cannot comprehend, among them the boundlessness of possibility.  Only by accepting this do we free our hopes from the limits of our understanding. Why confine our consolations to some narrow theology when every miracle we could wish for lies in the unknowability that is God?  The answer to the eternal "Why" lies in the three words, "We Don't Know" and in those words lies all hope.

If there's one thing you learn in a long life, it is that God will eventually do what is necessary to capture your attention.  

Religion and science have this in common, that each believes in a mystical, unseen Trinity, invisibly controlling the universe.  For religion, it is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  For science, it is Dark Mass, Dark Energy and Dark Flow.

The Fruit Untasted

 Life is more a basket of kumquats than a bowl of cherries -- the task you kumquat finish, the promise you kumquat keep, the apology you kumquat find the words for. 

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Define Marriage

Disclaimer:  The following applies to marriages generally and not to any particular marriage I might be involved in.  😉

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Marriage:  the unforeseen consequence of a wedding.

Marriage:  a state of bliss in which if one partner dies unexpectedly, the other is the prime suspect.

Marriage: the process by which, after two become one, they decide which one.

Marriage:  a partnership formed with no clear objective and sustained by the absence of any clear alternative.

Four Thoughts

 It is a shame to keep a deep dark secret from the one person who might most help you to bear its burden.

It is sad when a relationship survives all the reasons it could never work only to fail because you neglected the reasons it should have worked.

There are words said in the heat of argument that you cannot unsay.  You must trust in love's ability to unhear.

The ultimate test of love is a test of forgiveness, and no one so tested will ever ask again, "What is love?"