Posted in Abandonment, Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, General Comments, Hope, Life, Love, Loving, articles, christian, christianity, daily life, faith, friends, inspiration, tagged Abandonment, Aphorisms, christian, christianity, friends, Friendship, Friendships, inspiration, Life, Love, One liners, Opinion, Quotations, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, Thoughts on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Hmm… I am not sure that I would agree that every relationship can be healthy. Just like knowing cheeseburgers are unhealthy doesn’t make them healthy. Similarly, if a person reacts to me in a negative way too often, I don’t think the secret would be to anticipate their negativity and to “socially engineer” only positive [...]
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Posted in Abandonment, Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, General Comments, Hope, Life, Love, Loving, articles, christian, christianity, daily life, faith, friends, inspiration, tagged Abandonment, Aphorisms, christian, christianity, friends, Friendship, Friendships, inspiration, Life, Love, One liners, Opinion, Quotations, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, Thoughts on April 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We are all different. Some people have certain properties about themselves that arise from an interplay between genes and environment which confers upon them certain strengths but gives them some vulnerabilities.
This gives us each a unique set of needs arising from our environment, and from its interplay between that and our physical being. Indeed, we [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Forgiveness, Life, Musings, Random, Renewal, Sprituality, catholicism, christian, christianity, church, daily life, faith, friends, god, inspiration, jesus, random thoughts, religion on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today in Church we heard about the tale of Lazarus and of how Jesus brought him back to life. The homily given was how this illustrated the possibility of hope and renewal in all of us. Not only can we be brought out of our sins, but we can also be brought back ouf of [...]
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Posted in Life, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Sprituality, Thoughts, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, inspiration, jesus, media, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, theology on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I have a tape of John Vanier giving a lecture on CBC Ideas regarding the concept of Forgiveness. I have played it to death, and still I find what he has to share with us humbling, and very deep.
I listen to it and imagine an ideal world where the guilt of rejection for either real [...]
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Sprituality, Thoughts, christian, christianity, church, faith, inspiration, jesus, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, religion, theology on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As I understand it, forgiveness is something that is given after the other party has admitted wrongdoing. If they had not, then forgiveness is futile, except maybe in one’s mind. In other words, if I had wronged you, and I don’t say I am sorry — in fact, I refuse to even acknowledge that wrong [...]
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, Random, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, christian, christianity, faith, inspiration, misc, ramblings, random thoughts on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I once had to confide in someone about something deeply personal, and I was told to “let it go”. It was one of those casual off-hand remarks, but later, I just got into this “letting go” groove.
Something about what he said just sunk in. It wasn’t said very powerfully; it was said offhandedly. But it [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, General Comments, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, faith, fiction, inspiration, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, television, writing on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article. It has been somewhat re-edited}
For the past 20 years or so, I had been pursuing this effort to get in some kind of mental groove that I was in in my early [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Sprituality, Thoughts, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, misc, random thoughts, religion, theology on March 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I tend to treat God as a separate being with His own will. I believe that the goodness of Jesus can never be fully revealed to us, and until it does, if it ever does, we don’t really have any idea of His thoughts. I am not happy with our separation, but I feel it [...]
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