So often as people, we do what it takes to get by, leaving our hearts in some kind of “lock box” for protection. In our humanistic wisdom we actually think we are doing ourselves a favor. No harm no foul right?
When I was pursuing a degree in education I learned about shunts. In raw [...]

For kicks I looked up the definition of “download” today and an overwhelming amount of sites gave me back the general consensus “transfer of data from a central computer source”. We are conscious beings and I have never met anyone who wasn’t looking for more “download”.
What I have come across is those [...]

I once heard somewhere a heart broken is merely one needing to make more room for love. It didn’t make much sense to me until I saw a visual picture. A heart closed up and sealed isn’t able to hold the things that overflow, therefore it had to be broken open to give access [...]

Coming home from work I had to “run an errand for our kids”, that’s what the hubby said. He rarely asks me to go out of my way for errands so I agreed. Traffic was fairly light so I was able so zoom along the freeway pretty quickly and take the exit I needed. [...]

A couple decades or more ago there was a movie called “The Marathon Man”. It was some kind of edge of your seat flick where a young guy is chased all over the city for reasons he doesn’t understand after his brother is killed. Finally he is captured and a seemingly insane torture dentist [...]

The air was cold and crisp despite the sun’s bright rays. We hit the track late in the afternoon but it was good timing, not many people out today. It’d been a while since I had been for a good hike so my flesh groaned a bit. As we walked side by side I enjoyed [...]

“One of the great uses of literary history is to keep on reminding us that while man is constantly acquiring new powers he is also constantly losing old ones.”     C.S. Lewis

Love……….what is your experience of this insatiable emotion? I myself can only name but a few…….
Love given
Love withheld
Love hurts
Love pain
Love lost
Love searched for
Love as a drug
Love needed
Love twisted
Love desired
Love denied
Love understood
Love misplaced
Love unfulfilled
Love undeniable
Love beyond ourselves
Love without reason
Love without expectation
Love with exception
Love unimaginable
Love simply to love because nothing is more expressive
We are so different, [...]

While reading a book this morning it was thought provoking on idolatry. We all know one of the ten commandments spoke of there being no other gods before Me, meaning our heavenly Father wants us to only worship Him.

I got to thinking about how easy it is to consistently fool ourselves with daily idols. Instead [...]

Mood music? A general question for all…do we put in music to fit our mood or do we listen to music and it sets our mood? I love the arts in all forms and I can’t define all the forms I have come across. Being a writer of course I am passionate about writing. [...]