Last weekend I attended a morning worship service for the first time in many years, and must say that, although I felt a bit uncomfortable in a Pentecostal Spanish speaking environment… I enjoyed it very much. The enthusiasm of the congregation, as they began their worship with song, and the warmth of their acceptance of…
Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Although I no longer believe that the Bible is the Word of God, it does have many good stories, such as the story of…
Some of the most memorable and important days of our life, pass us by unnoticed, and it is only when looking back, that we can fully realize their significance. I was the second child in our family, stuck between a bratty sister, two years my senior, and a spoiled little brother that was two years…
Most of us live just ordinary lives, each day followed by a routine that seldom varies. Many, if asked, can not recall but only a few memorable days when life was extraordinary for them. Graduations, Promotions, and Wedding days are a few of these Occasions, as is Falling in Love for the first time… by…
I have always enjoyed reading people and have, in fact, spent the majority of my life doing just that. I like long novels about interesting people with some mystery in the pages, which tempts me to go to the final chapter to find out how it ends… but I don’t, because I know that if…
My very first poem was written while sitting in a storage closet. I was trying to escape the all-seeing eyes of Commander Shedrack, our Director of Nursing at Quonset Point Rhode Island, my first duty station after boot camp. I had been a Professional Psychiatric Nurse before enlisting in the Navy but suddenly found a…
I am not a perfectionist… I can accept the fact that mankind is flawed and that most of what I know and see in others is only a facade… behind which hides an undeveloped personage, that if given the chance, could become a luminary. This seldom happens, however, and the bud withers and dies without…
Most of us have witnessed miracles and answered prayers at some point in our lives. I certainly have had my share of them… from sitting with empty cupboards around a table with several hungry foster children to feed, offering up a prayer of supplication to God, and having the telephone ring just as the “Amen”…
I can still remember sitting in the balcony of the Olivet Reformed Church in Grandville, Michigan…listening to the pastor preach a sermon on the Unpardonable Sin. It scared me at the time because even as a child I had questioned my religion and wasn’t sure if I had crossed the line yet or not. Fortunately,…
I no longer believe in a Creator God Entity that lives unseen somewhere outside our dimensions of time and space. To imagine such an entity, surrounded by winged subordinate beings, which control our world and manipulate our lives, seems a bit foolish to me now. There is no reality other than here and now… no…