God
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During the early years of my spiritual searching, I bumped into a plethora of cult like groups. So many of them were small ego driven cliques, where your participation was allowed as your ability to suspend belief, move common sense and keep your mouth shut. At first these groups so pleased that you can attend,… Read more
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I had the great privilege of spending the bulk of my early adult years in northern Minnesota. And let me say, after 30 some years I do believe these people may just have a cult love for winter. But it’s a true God believing place, because the cold will take the breath from your lungs.… Read more
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It’s funny when you think on our lives as one elongated story. Many chapters are the boring ones filled with mundane details outlining our struggles, and what happened along the way with the roster of people assigned to help and those who hurt. Also included are the other chapters containing the horror of your life… Read more
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thanks to the world of sorrow, and thanks to the world of pain we have found ourselves once again blessed, to live as we are ordained. dropped on our knees, are heads held low, just how far down will we go? then we stop and look around, every head is on the ground. What has… Read more
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Here’s my declaration. Here is my truth. This is my line in the sand. I have made a mistake. One that is nearly 12 years old now. A continuous mistake that I have been trying to fix, inside myself mostly. It has been a costly mistake, financially yes, but far worse, emotionally. I gave up my… Read more
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Guilt Oh how we hold our head up so high pretending to reach a God in the sky but we worship our pain and we wallow in dread aww the sound of guilt became our god in its stead we think ourselves capable of making this choice as if we created this guilt ridden voice… Read more
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Here in the Northland, daytime is but a memory as clouds, snow and 3:30 sunsets become the norm. In this part of the world the idea of the Winter Solstice and the return of light, is the light at the end of the tunnel reminding us that the universe does a lot of work under… Read more
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That’s right I am angry. Oh does that hurt your precious sensibility? Funny how in spiritual circles we are to shun anger. Don’t be angry! Don’t get mad, get glad! Well you know what, I’m angry and I am ready to feel this anger and then tend to it. I figure if Jesus got angry… Read more
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I sometimes wonder if humanity feels fear and pain the way they do because we are always like the poem reads, one step away. We continue dwelling on our negative issues feeling lost and abandoned, as if the boo hoo-ing has gotten any of us anywhere. We feel one step away and we stay one… Read more
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I stopped writing some time ago, why bother? What difference does it make? My life was derailed years ago and I have been swimming like hell to get back to some kind of shore. And I see a lot of people out here swimming the waters of “OH MY GOD ARE YOU KIDDING ME” with… Read more
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