Philosophy

Changed Priorities

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Seeking earthly treasure, status, ease and leisure brings no lasting pleasure … thus the best things losing … Seeking first God’s kingdom… eternal life unending. …Matthew 6:33

… but is there?

Is that a fact, or your desire? … Maybe you feel he maybe is, but do not like the way that this world is, and so reject if so a God who does not choose to do …
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In response to Luigi's Morning Mail

I want good news, but not the kind doled out like cute puppies to blot out massacres, sunsets to obscure famine. No. That’s comfort served not as...
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The Day We Are In

The day we are in The day we are in each one, new with myriad possibilities of brush mixed water, colors of morning’s hushed sounds, and thoughts...
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Stranger in a Cage

We all have them. We might convince ourselves otherwise but the plain truth is, we all have our prejudices. The trick is not to act those prejudices out.
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Evil plans frustrated

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] (based on David’s testimony when fleeing from Absiolom’s rebellion as in Psalm 3) They say God is not helping me – I trust. They think that they have vanquished me – and thrust their sneers, and act rebelliously – God must …

We are Trinity

What we know of ourselves is partial. What we know of others is distorted by masks and lenses; refracted through misread reflections. True understanding remains elusive, not out of malice, but because our identities are always fragmented and multiplied.
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Magic Roundabout

Magic Roundabout by Paul McCann Life is like a magic roundabout turning us around and round and inside out time and time again . It leaves us in a...

By and by,

By and by we'll climb that hillside again. And prepare a plan for getting down. We'll repair our blisterered feet as we rest atop before slowly, and...
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Jesus saw, He called; He sees, He calls

Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Matthew* sitting at his stall – Jesus saw him in the crowd. Short Zacchaeus** heard his call – seen by Jesus up a tree. Sees with …