Thinking about my religion

My journey through religion. Key points. I met my Guardian Angel as a child.  It happened during one of my many dark hours.  It was a feeling, nothing I could prove.  But it was real to me.  My babysitter once brought me to Awana where I accepted Christ into my life.  I felt Him for the first [...]

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The God Complex

Free Streaming of Consciousness My son sent me another email.  I wonder what it is.  Maybe he is finally going to come see me and bring my granddaughter to visit her only grandmother.  Well I guess she has another grandmother but I live closer, plus I am in a nursing home and we get very lonely [...]

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Atheism

In my studies I have learned that there are two types of Atheists: 1.  One’s who believe there is no god 2.  One’s who do not believe a god exists The distinction is small and a bit tedious, but very important to atheists.  One is a belief, the other is a lack of belief.  The [...]

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My religion is Love

I’ve realized that I don’t fully understand the tenants of atheism and agnosticism as much as I would like to. I have made it a point to define my religion not by one particular denomination but rather as a mix of various spiritual beliefs that make sense to me. I don’t have one religion, I [...]

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It’s the end of the world as we know it

Okay so maybe I am an alarmist, or extremist, or any other ist that warns about the end of the world, but I can’t help but think about it when I read articles like these on a daily basis: An article about Global Warming and the many un-natural disasters our world is going through http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1839281,00.html An article [...]

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Help This Precious Child

Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 NASB Dear God, I thank You for the gift of this child to raise, this life to share, this mind to help mold, this body to nurture, and this spirit to enrich. [...]

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Back to the peanut farm

There once was a gifted man.  The man came from a humble background but was exceptionally smart and worked hard to fulfill his dream of becoming Chief of Naval Operations.  When he was Lieutenant and only years away from serving on a nuclear submarine, the man’s father died.  The man was forced to retire his successful naval career and return to [...]

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Addressing Faulty Thinking

I don’t usually watch TV.  I don’t have any favorite shows that I tune into every night.  I don’t have a regularly scheduled program.  So on the days when I do decide to turn on the television, I usually end up turning it off after 15 minutes because I flipped through all of the channels [...]

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God and the City

A coworker recently bought a book for me.  “I always buy the first book” she said with pride.  It was book one of a twelve book series that is a fictional account based off of the Book of Revelations.  I really liked the book, it was a great read and very enlightening.  I whipped through [...]

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Bubble Wrap

So I was washing my hair, wincing at the pain of Tresemme in paper cuts, when my understanding of the world and God became a tiny percentage clearer.  I was so excited about it that I stood there in the shower for an hour just contemplating my new theory.  I built off of my prevailing view [...]

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