You’re a mature adult, and yet you can learn a lot from a baby bird. We too fear to trust our wings. We often plume and flutter them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling to our perch, and excuse our timidity by saying we are “chained by circumstances.” Courage is what…
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Pay Attention
Both of my meditations for the day remind me of the Whoopi Goldberg line in Sister Act II – “Girl, you got to wake up and pay attention.” We often look to far afield for God. We don’t need to take a telescope or microscope to find God. We only have to be receptive and…
Paradox
Paradox – A statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory, but in fact is or may be true. In the movie Polyanna the preacher after being called to task by Haley Mills does in fact count the number of happy texts in the Bible. I forget the number, but it is…
Bad Vibrations — Wily Coyote
I love the Road Runner cartoons. One of my favorite scenes is when the coyote tries to hit the road runner with some form of sledge hammer, inevitability he misses and instead strike some immovable object. The entire force of the coyote’s blow returns to him in the way of vibration, that start the coyote…
Truth
Luke: Obi-Wan? Why didn’t you tell me? You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father. Obi-Wan: Your father was seduced by the dark side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. So what I told you…