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…
Many years ago I worked as a counselor at a youth center in the Southwestern part of the United States. Most of my clients were of Indian or Spanish ethnicity and were referred to me by the police. Occasionally, however, I would be asked by the local schools to see students, from other ethnic backgrounds…