If life can be compared to a game of CHESS... then just because we find ourselves constantly maneuvering out of "CHECK," doesn't necessitate we are fated to be "CHECKMATED." However, if in the end we have persevered, then more often than not, its because our opponent made a mistake - and not because of some new found genius on our part. This is why we should pray... Hebrews 7:25

Reality and Perception

The Fullness Of Reality Is Known
Not Only By What Is Obvious To Us
But Also Through The Perception Of What Is Missing -

That Is Always There.

This Is Why Many Of Us Are Haunted
With The Troubling Sense
That At Best
Our Existence Is Only Half Of What It Should Be.

Is it just me, or do the crystal clear images associated with each of the upcoming days, weeks, months and years, become less and less vivid and more and more of an obscure blur - gaining speed and losing clarity with each succeeding year I live? I need to take Brother Lawrence & Thomas R. Kelly's admonition and learn to live in the "Eternal Now."

Psalm 1:3 The Giving of Life In Life

1. ANSWER This carefully:

What Person Do You Know,

Who When You Are In Their Presence

"GIVES YOU LIFE," and why?

2. DON'T ANSWER This - But Think About It Carefully:

What Person Do You Know

That When They Are In Your Presence

"YOU GIVE THEM LIFE," and Why?

EXISTENTIAL TIME…

Birth is Not-Requested

Youthfulness is Fleeting

Aging is Inexorable

Death is Wrong

Eternity is Restoration or Dis-Integration

There... IT IS THE CROSS!!!

Life is Right

The Present is Vital

Child-Likeness Is Necessary

Existence is Purpose

HOPE

Restoration, Wholeness, Authenticity,

Relationship, Meaning, Purpose,

Peace , Love and Joy

(SHALOM)

Can Be Ours...

What Color Do We Live Our Lives In?

First Photo Ever Taken From Outer Space
Of The Planet Earth


Most Of Us LIVE

More According To What What FEAR Inwardly

Rather Than What We HOPE For Outwardly

This Kind of Existence

Is The Difference Between

Portraying Our Life

From The "NEGATIVE" Of A Photo

LIMITED to The Grainy and Dualistic Color Pallette

Of A Black And White Photo

Versus

The Our Life Portrayed As The Photo

That EMBRACES The Joyful, Quixotic, Nuances

Of The Full and Dynamic Color Spectrum

More Thoughts

Socrates Once Said:

The Greatest Way To Live With Honor In This World

Is To Be What We Pretend To Be


The Worst Education That Teaches Self-Denial

Is Better Than The Best

Which Teaches Everything Else And Not That

- Stephen Covey


Spiritual Renewal

Upon Emerging From A Spiritual Season

Of Cold Discontent & Mind Numbing Detachment

[It] DEMANDS That In Order To Truly "Feel" Again

Necessarily Means to Simultaneously Hope For Pleasure And To Risk Pain

For Pain and Pleasure Share The Same Source

Circumstantially, Their Purpose Capable of Both


r.s.g 01/14/09




Life Is Not Fair and Is Rarely Just -

Our Character Is Formed And Our Nature Shaped

In Accordance Of How We Choose To Respond

rsg 10/31/08

To A Number of People I Know...

One Mistake A Person's Life, Usually Does Not Make

But A Series of Similar Mistakes Can Shape A Life

That Cannot Be Unmade
rsg 10/27/08


Someone Once Said:

"Insanity" Is Making The Same Mistakes

Over and Over Again

And Expecting A Different Result Everytime



Most People Choose To Live To Those Ways

In Which They Are Dying

Rather Than Die To Those Ways

In Order To Live
rsg 05/06