Sometimes, Round Two: Day 40 of 365 – The Quiet Inside!
Sometimes The Quiet In The Mind Drowns Out The Noise In The World! Peace and Quiet! How we long for those gifts from time-to-time. The Noise of the World overwhelms and inundates! Finding a quiet place for retreat very often escapes our search. Everywhere we turn, Noise assaults us! What are we to do? Well, […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 39 of 365 – Relief and Sadness!
Sometimes Relief Is Draped With Sadness! “Plop, plop! Fizz, fizz! Oh, What A Relief It Is!” That catchy little phrase found air time on televisions all over the country back in the 1960’s pitching the positive effects of Alka Seltzer for upset stomach. I can close my eyes and see the “effervescent” smile of little […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 38 of 365 – The Things We Wish To Hide!
Sometimes The Things We Wish To Hide Slip Out Of Our Mouths Anyway…At Very Inopportune Moments! “Oops! That one just popped right out there!” You know what I mean . . . very often, perhaps more often than we like, something we wish to remain hidden – an opinion, an impression, a thought – […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 37 of 365 – The Burdens of This World!
Sometimes The Burdens Of This World Are Too Much to Bear Alone! We all carry worries and cares around with us. We fill our minds, hearts and spirits with concerns about the future. We weigh ourselves down with regrets from our past. We collect hopes in the present as if they are guarantees. And […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 36 of 365 – Tired Is A Good Thing!
Sometimes Tired Is A Good Thing…Especially At The End Of A Productive Day! Sometimes, tired is just tired! Tired grabs us when lose sleep. It sneaks up on us when lose ourselves in a project that defies completion. It drains us when we veg out in front of the television. It seeps into our bones […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 35 of 365 – The Next Thing!
Sometimes You Have To Do The Next Thing Even If The Next Thing Is Washing The Dishes! The month: February. The year: 1974. The setting: A Sunday night service in my home church in college. The message: “Learning to Live in the Meantimes.” Funny how a message sometimes grabs the heart and holds on tight! […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 34 of 365 – The Obvious and The Absurd!
Sometimes The Obvious Waits Patiently In The Wings While The Absurd Struts Inanely In The Spotlight! The Absurd tends to receive the most attention in our world! The Absurd sells tickets and music and cars and ideas. It’s that last one that is most troublesome, the ideas that the Absurd peddles. We can be such […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 33 of 365 – A Single Act of Kindness!
Sometimes A Single Act Of Kindness Planted In The Soul Of Another Bears Fruit In Multiple Future Generations! A Ripple Effect accompanies most if not all actions, regardless of their intent or nature. Choices are rarely if ever made in a vacuum. Someone, somewhere experiences the effects of decisions at some point. The actions, reactions […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 32 of 365 – The Joy of Giving!
Sometimes The Joy Of Giving, In And Of Itself, Is Enough! Giving! What a complicated thing we have turned it into! We give to exert influence. We give to receive favor. We give to find blessing. We give to make headlines. We give out of obligation. We give out of guilt. We give for all […]
Sometimes, Round Two: Day 31 of 365 – Untested Bias!
Sometimes We Reject Verifiable Truth To Protect Our Untested Bias! We live in strange times! It seems that whenever people say things with which we do not agree, we cry “Fake!” Often, when news organizations report stories either in print or on air that rub us the wrong way, we cry “Fake!” Frequently when facts […]