There is an old Masonic cemetery in Virginia City, Nevada, with gravestones dating back to the first residents of this mining town. Around many of the burial plots are wrought iron fences, most no more than three feet high. They are gated and of ornate design common to the Victorian era. I visited the cemetery…
Are you afraid of snakes? If you are, you are not alone. Snakes are strange creatures—no arms, legs, or other appendages, just a scale-covered spine with a mouth at one end. Snakes slither along the ground in a mysterious and stealthy way. They are cold-blooded and the bite of some can be deadly. It is…
How do you make decisions? Are you the “decider,” as George W. Bush once referred to himself? Do you have a cabinet or board over which you preside? Is your soul on your board? Does God sit at your conference table offering His recommendations. Do you take what He says under advisement? Your ego likes…
Got your Oprah glasses on, and your Eckhart Tolle reader, your immersed within the present, and you’re feeling all that oneness, and everybody’s groovy, and all beliefs are valid, and everything’s respected, and empathy flows freely, except to those who disagree. All groups have a shadow, just as all people have a shadow. The danger…
On the battlefield, bullets whizzing past my ears, a war which I created through rebelliousness and obstinance. Chaos reigns supreme and none of it will end until I cry uncle, and God my service lend, and to God’s will I bend. The psyche will not be put off or in hubris be ignored, and every…
