Your definition of tolerance, if you are a product of the public school system in the USA since the 1970s, doesn’t match with the original, and general understanding of tolerance. What the schools have taught you is that not only do you have to follow the basic definition of tolerance (which I’ll give in a […]
Hope and optimism: are they the same? I recently was asked this and my initial, brief, response was that optimism is something anyone can have, regardless of belief, whereas hope holds a spiritual atmosphere. The conversation isn’t over, but now that I have had time to ponder the initial question of whether hope and optimism […]
I’m really saddened by Oprah Winfrey’s decision to follow the New Age movement.
She follows the path of two other women who as young ladies, vowed -as she had- to follow Christ: Shirley McClain, and J Z Knight. Oprah’s most recent avenue of promoting this “new age” cult is her online book studies “A […]
I met a homeless woman recently. I blogged about it. She made me ponder, once again, the plight of the homeless in the area. South Florida is abundant with homeless men, women, families. This last week, after hearing a religious program about the slave trade in the States, and then watching a few programs about […]
If you read my blog from yesterday, you will see where I received a free meal. Today, I dutifully helped my mother with her grocery shopping, as the Commandment “Honor your mother…” tells us to. I had to wait for her to arrive by bus, as she uses a motorized wheelchair. She had never used […]
I had a great experience today. Well, it included some angst. I was driving over to the local health food store as I have determined to work on becoming healthier physically. Sitting on the curb in the shade around the corner from the store, was a woman with a beat up backpack and wiping the […]
“Character” is who you are when no one is looking.
Once again we are being threatened with higher gasoline prices, just in time for Labor Day. This year, the problem is the impending hurricane named Gustav, which is heading directly for the oil platform fields of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
But that isn’t the real reason. Oil companies find any reason to raise prices, often […]
Who would have thought that if you took two poisons, those being sodium and chlorine, and combine them you could create something beneficial: salt!
The chemical reaction between the two poisons creates something good. (I want to read up on how this was discovered, and who was the person who tasted the two poisons together. )
Salt, […]
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Against such things there is is no law. ” Gal. 5:22-23[En cambio, lo que el Espiritu produce es amor, alegria, paz, paciencia, amabilidad, bondad, fidelidad, humilidad, y dominio propio. Contra tales cosas no hay ley. […]
