We Cannot Do Everything
I think this is the longest I have gone without posting something to my blog since I began blogging over five years ago.  It has been a busy month around here, and while I won’t go into details, for you United Methodists out there I will give a clue:  Annual Charge Conference.  There have been way too many meetings and administrative duties to attend to lately, and I have been ignoring all my blogs during this time. In a way this has been nice, since the demands of writing something or finding something interesting to post have been non-existent.  I also had a couple of bad experiences with blogging earlier this year, which made me more reluctant t

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An Ancient Sufi Poem
I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly laughing – Now! Poem found

A Mind
"A mind, once stretched by a great idea, never returns to its former limitations." Albert Einstein Technorati Tags: ALbert Einstein quotes,mind Posted in Einstein, wisdom Tagged: Albert Einstein

A Morning Prayer by Thomas Merton
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this, You will lead me by the right road. Though I may know nothing about it. Therefore wi