control
Just the other day I was talking with someone who is very close to me who is president of an international ministry. I don't agree with much of his theology. But he really cares about people and pastors. He travels around the world serving churches and pastors to help...
Tired of being someone else
I don't know where to put this - but this is based in feelings more than anything. I want to start adding more to this community and feel weird just focusing on myself, so feel free to go off on tangents of any kind and talk about your own experiences and to ignore my...
a new clean sunrise
I got up early this morning. As usual. I finished posting today's cartoon. The sun was just rising over the trees in my backyard so I went on my back deck and smoked my pipe as the sun rose. The sky was clear blue. No wind. Very still and peaceful and clean. So I...
Life changes. Unfortunately.
Sometimes changes in the life around you can pile up. Christmas is definitely not the same this year, since my religious and spiritual feelings have changed. This makes it much harder to go through the motions of gift buying and so on. I've never been much for the...
The road less traveled
Last night as I slept, my soul was guided back to the point of this current incarnation. Within the seemingly real-life images igniting my senses, the task was simple in theory: choose one of three paths to walk. The first path appeared before me as the young mother...
ritual is okay
Ritual is okay. There are things I've done since I was a child that no longer have the same meaning they had since I was a child. For example, I used to LOVE animal cookies, and every time I ate one I really felt like I was at the zoo taking it all in. I love animals...
man emerges from Y2K bunker after 14 years
Sometimes it's too crazy to not be true: A man just emerged from a bunker 14 years after the Y2K scare! Check it out!
love and forgiveness, and a ring
we were not-quite-fully-engaged one christmas and i was visiting north and his family. every time i approached a room, they would leave! all of them! mostly i didn't care. N was busy a lot, and it seemed like no one would talk to me. they were constantly talking to...
Meet a Member Podcast: Gregory Lease
It was wonderful to finally talk with one of our members who's been us from nearly the beginning, Gregory Lease. A wonderful man! I was interested to hear his "Jesus showed up" story and how that has affected his life from then on. I apologize for the sound quality on...
