I looked at my pre-breakfast slice of toast and considered.
After praying, I spread creamed eggs on the now-breakfast toast and commenced to crunch a bunch. As I munched, I ruminated.
Then spoke truth to toast: Read it all
Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
I looked at my pre-breakfast slice of toast and considered.
After praying, I spread creamed eggs on the now-breakfast toast and commenced to crunch a bunch. As I munched, I ruminated.
Then spoke truth to toast: Read it all
Grumbling is a bunch of ungratefulness wrapped in selfishness and bound tightly with cables of negativity.
It doesn’t look pretty as a gift.
And the content is disgusting.
A grumbler has a sense of entitlement to something better.
Maybe rightly so. More likely, not. Read it all
Dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory loss, confusion, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) — whatever it is, I hate it.
I hate what it does to anyone, be it someone I know and love or be it a total stranger (whom I should also love).
Some days I even pray against it in a specific person or two. Read it all
Why do some parents ignore their own children?
Or “specialize” in giving negative attention?
Aren’t those forms of child abuse?
And parental weakness and failure?
Here are three chunks of this morning’s trigger for those questions: Read it all
He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. —Isa. 27:8.
Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great. —I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: . . . I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.Read it all
I stood at the bottom of the giant oak (or was it an elm?!) down in the canyon.
I tipped by head way back to stare at yellowed leaves up high. Stared, so I could track movement in my periphery.
Soon I saw it wave for my attention. Drifting down through the windstill air. Read it all