So the upcoming Superbowl got me to wondering about something. I got to wondering what makes the football players outfit a uniform rather than a costume.
God cleared it up for me. He said that when you wear distinctive clothing as part of being something, then that’s a uniform. If you wear distinctive […]
Today God turned the tables and had a question for me. It relates to what I was talking about yesterday, about how I make a point every year of watching the commercials that are shown during the Superbowl. He wanted to know why I avoid commercials the rest of the year but set […]
Well, Superbowl Sunday is coming up. For me that means fast forwarding through a lot of football to get to all the new commercials. I’ve got nothing against sports, I just don’t want to watch them. And most of the time I don’t want to watch commercials either, but I make a […]
There’s this notion out there that our entire lives are recorded even before we’re born. Call it destiny, or call it God’s plan or call it something else, but it all boils down to the same thing. Now, I’ve talked to God a lot about free will but it’s such an important notion […]
One of my favorite movies is Harold and Maude and one of the reasons is this exchange between the title characters:
Harold asks, “Maude, do you pray?”
And Maude answers, “Pray? No… I communicate.”
Now I’m lucky, or blessed, or whatever else you want to call it, because I actually get to talk with God. […]
After yesterday’s talk with God about what happens when we die, I got to thinking about the scales of justice as they apply to sin. For some reason, my mind focused in on blasphemy. I got to wondering just how serious a transgression it really was. I mean, surely committing murder is […]
I haven’t done a thorough rundown with God on what happens when we die, but we’ve discussed some aspects of it, or at least touched on them. Today I decided to try and flesh out some of what I knew.
There’s the basics that I was taught growing up: We’re born, we live our […]
Like a large percentage of men, I can be a fairly impatient driver. I was making some rude comments on the social standing of the driver in front of me when God decided to join me. I don’t mean join me in disparaging my fellow road warrior, just that he joined me in […]
One of the things I like to do is play poker. One of the big skills in poker is looking at your hand and figuring out the likelihood that your hand will be better than everyone else’s hand when all the betting is done. Now God doesn’t have to make educated guesses like […]
It still catches me by surprise, the aspects of my conversations with God that butt up against the rules he established at the start. Things that are perfectly normal to crop up when I’m talking with friends end up running into a wall when I’m talking with the creator. I mean, it makes […]
I was watching some televised poker the other day and they spent some time talking about the superstitions of some of the players. That got me to wondering about the belief espoused by many atheists and others that the universe is like a giant pinball machine. The idea is that the universe […]
I was looking back over my notes of previous conversations with God and I noticed another dichotomy. When I talked with him about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, in the Garden of Eden, he gave me a pretty straight answer. He told me that he kept Adam and Eve from […]
Thinking back over some of the conversations I’ve had with God, I thought maybe I’d caught him in a lie. There seemed to be a basic contradiction in what he’d told me. He’s described his creation of the universe as one of designing processes and letting them run. He’s said that he […]
There’s a theory that gets tossed around a lot, that there must be evil, because without it we wouldn’t be able to recognize good. I asked God about this and she allowed as how it was an interesting idea but she didn’t really buy it.
She went back to looking at humanity as an art […]
Well, Christmas is over but still, somehow, it lingers. Okay, “somehow” is a little vague, let me be more specific. We’re at that point where the stores have mostly taken down their decorations but not quite everything is gone yet. I was in a hotel this weekend that still had their miniature […]
A lot of people have said that we suffer in this life so that we might be rewarded in Heaven. Now I’ve certainly had times where I suffered, but, overall, I think I’ve had a pretty good life. I’ve never been homeless. I’ve never had extended periods where I couldn’t get enough […]
Yesterday I spent some time talking about the creation of the universe and telling you that Young Earth theories come largely out of human hubris and ego, but that’s not all God had to say on the subject. There was one other thing that he said that I wanted to tell you about.
It has […]
Many Creationists believe that the universe came into being just five or six thousand years ago. This is largely due to the influence of a variety of Biblical literalists, the kind of guys that you’d call bean counters if you saw them around the office. These guys did things like add up the […]
Well, tonight is the twelfth night of Christmas. I expect a lot of people don’t know why Christmas has twelve days, I know I didn’t. I’m sure I could’ve looked it up somewhere, but I took the easy way out and asked God. To my surprise she didn’t make me go look […]
I had something of a bad dream last night. I can’t remember it now but I think it had something to do with being the only one wearing clothes at a nudist colony. Anyway, that got me to wondering if God had nightmares, but he once told me that he hasn’t really slept […]
We’ve all heard it said many times, “cleanliness is next to Godliness,” but is it true? Well, in some sense everything is next to Godliness, but obviously, that can’t be the sense that people mean when they toss out that aphorism because then it wouldn’t mean anything useful. Not that people are all […]
I once saw a news program about people that purport to believe that they are vampires. They wear dark clothes. They avoid going out in the sunlight. They even have prosthetic fangs that fit onto their teeth and make them sound funny when they try to talk. Okay, I’ll admit to […]
What I wanted to know today is, does God have any new year’s resolutions.
He told me no, but he did have one that he thought might be good for me. He suggested I resolve to pay no attention to any campaigning for United States President until at least the start of 2008.
It sounds like […]