What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs?

Hello world. The following was written 12/02/2014. I had written an article titled, “If everything you think you know was taught to you…” that received a number of comments and questions from my brothers. The following dialogues are what transpired. Brother one asks, “If I may pose a question bringing to light some other of your posts over the past week. If this post reflects how you feel how can you then blame “God” and be outraged at him over what has happened to you in your past if you believe him to solely be a concept or idea people make up to explain things away?” Brother two states, “I would rather live a life of faith and making efforts to be a blessing to people and find out at the end that I was wrong. Than to live anyway I wanted assuming that God was an imagination and come to the end of my days only to discover that he is real. At that moment the scripture that says it is a fearful thing to fall into the hand of the living God would be more than anyone could bare. Just something else to consider.” My response, “I ask Continue Reading

The Finch.

Hello world. The following was written 12/02/2014. I was out on my patio staring off into space when a design on the ground came into my awareness. I shared what I was experiencing and the following dialogue ensued with absolute hilarity. My post, “I am looking at a splatter mark on the concrete of my back patio. I turn to my Husband and say to him, “Honey that looks like a Finch.” He looks at the mark then and agrees with me that it does look like a Finch. Here is the problem. I have no idea what a Finch is or even looks like. So how can I say that, that, is what it is and looks like? Alex immediately goggled Finch images so I could see what it was and looked like. How did I know what it was and looked like without ever really seeing one? So confused!” Brother one states, “Because you’ve clearly seen one in your lifetime (because it’s kind of hard not to have seen one, they’re in every pet store) and you subconsciously remembered it and/or actively forgot where you’ve seen one.” My response, “okay” Brother two responds, “We are all connected. You Continue Reading