No posts in 2025 but this four line song given to me became mine in December......
Sea wash over me////Cleanse and make me free////I want a life free from turmoil and strife////I want to discover God....
I sang it to my brother in Philadelphia over the phone. I am expecting to get lines to it in the future.
In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great Discovery that liberty is a product of order.
"Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death." (Wernher Von Braun)
It is hard to believe that the heart beats 100,000 times in a day. But then there are 86,400 seconds in a day. The heart beats about 3.5 million times in a year and in an average lifetime the heart beats more than 2.5 billion times.
The Jabez Prayer is in First Chronicles 4:10. The New King James version of it reads as follows: "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain."
Most translations of the Jabez Prayer are characterized by this sentiment: "that I may not experience pain"rather than that I would not cause pain.
The scholars at Thomas Nelson Publishers "assigned" a merit to Jabez that led him to find favor with God.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried. (G.K. Chesterton)
"The spiritual life can never be made suburban," said Howard Masey. "It is always frontier and we who live in it must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed."
This quote brings to mind a quote from the Gospel of John: Chapter 8 verse 3 in the King James Version reads : "The wind bloweth where it listeth. and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spiritt."
I was going to make all wars to cease
Before breakfast. Before lunch
I was going to take 100 Dalmatians and
Fifty-six firetrucks and shut down hell
By eleven a.m. I had read an issue of
The Journal of Near Death Studies
And realized hell was mostly frozen over and
My firetrucks would only make matters worse.
It was quiet though, all wars ceasing before
Breakfast, Nietzsche, Marx, Lenin, and Hitler were enjoying a card game.
Schweitzer and Gandhi walked around on
Eggshells, pondering the first day of the thousand-year ceasefire.
Did I have regrets making Man in my own image?
Was it right for me to hide from Nietzsche when
He came looking for me? Did I learn to hide from
Adam, or did he learn to hide from me?
At 1 p.m. it was croquet with the prophet
Moses and Presley at Graceland. We talked about the
Artichoke salad, Howard Finster's spelling and decided to
Take the next bus to Texas and visit the Cadillac Ranch.
The composer/evangelist Charles Frederick Weigle lived from 1871 to 1966. He spent his last years as a guest resident of Tennessee Temple Schools and Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga. One of the buildings was called the Weigle Building. He had an apartment in the building.
One day in late 1965 or early 1966 my sister Debbie walked with him from the barber shop to his apartment. The sidewalks were icy and the walk took over ten minutes. Debbie does not remember what they talked about as they walked. Charles thanked her for walking with him.
Charles is best known for his song "No one ever cared for me like Jesus" written in 1932 as he recovered from a depression caused by his wife leaving him.
Here are the lyrics:
Chorus: No one ever cared for me like Jesus; There's no other friend so kind as He. No one else could take the sin and darkness from me; oh how much He cared for me.
First verse: I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus, since I found in Him a friend so strong and true. I would tell you how He changed my life completely; He did something no other friend could do.
Second verse: All my life was full of sin when Jesus found me; all my heart was full of misery and woe. Jesus placed his strong arms about me and He led me in the way I ought to go.
Third verse: Ev'ry day He comes to me with new assurance; more and more I understand His word of love. But I'll never know just why He came to save me, till someday I see His blessed face above.
A friend is one who knows you as you are, understands where you you've been, accepts who you've become, and still--gently--invites you to grow......(author unknown)
