In my post yesterday "do not cast your pearls before swine", I suggested that you only share your inner valuables with those who are genuinely interested and care about you and what you have to share. Do not share your truths with those who can't or won't appreciate...
You've heard the saying of Jesus, "Do not cast your pearls before swine." The basic meaning of that is don't share yourself… your truth… your life… anything of yourself that is of value to you, important to you… with those who won't appreciate it. They'll trample it...
On a couple of these vacation summers and weekends in between, I became well acquainted with Perfect Patty, a child of one of my family’s Polish friend’s. Perfect Patty’s mom who had been a Catholic had become “saved” and converted to being a Baptist. Perfect Patty...
I'm ok...but really I'm not. On the outside I seem fine, but the truth is I’m so very exhausted of it all. Religion. I've been "enlightened". I've been exposed to reality. I’m deconstructing. But I still go to my Episcopal parish because I love them and they love me....
Please take a moment to read this. It's about us. I chose this picture of me with this t-shirt because what I have to say is very complicated. But it's very simple too. I want to thank all you TLSers for an incredible year. Well, it's been over a year. But I'm writing...
I dutifully said my prayers (Our Father) before bed every night with my father standing by to supervise the proceedings. I don’t know why my dad posed me the way he did. The photo shown is not even a true re-enactment of the event. I did it on my knees on the floor,...
This is a photo of the frozen river in front of my house today. It's a bright day. There are many degrees of white. If it was overcast and someone asked me what the color #1 was, I would have said white. If it was a bright day and there were no snowmobile trails nor...
A friend of mine posted this on FB. I wish more people could grasp this. Seeing it made me say "yes!". Been thinking about this a lot lately. "Equal treatment" is not the same as "fair treatment" and is not in itself "fair" or "just". Equal treatment does not take...
We pretty much have the new site up to where we want it. We might just try to improve the chat feature at this point. I would love it if more and more of you started posting some of your stuff here. I know Facebook is a great habit, but maybe we can start posting some...
I drew this chart this morning to try to roughly illustrate the two different ways we can view our journeys. The first way, the one on the left, is to believe that we are "all over the place", wandering, lost, confused, indecisive, floundering. Those who stick with...
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