I talked the other day about gay pride. As you’ll recall, God helped me figure out that it wasn’t about being proud of something that is just part of who I am, but rather it was about being proud of having made it through all of society’s anti-gay programming without losing myself.
Well, there’s one […]
Since June is “Gay Pride” month, I couldn’t let it go by without at least bringing up the subject. The thing I’ve never gotten is why it’s something to be proud of. I mean it’s something we’re born with, or, if not completely, there’s at least a very strong genetic component.
So what did […]
A large part of most religions is an attempt to understand God. To know him. To know what he thinks and what he wants. Based on the many conversations I’ve had with him, I’ve gotten the distinct impression that he feels this is not something of which we are capable.
In the book […]
God and I got back to the subject of Satan and Hell today. It’s a subject likely to come up again, as I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of dealing with the Devil; the idea of selling your soul for riches, power, or other earthly gains.
Given that Satan was so bothered by the […]
I was talking to God today about how I drive. Now, one of the things I really care about is people that don’t signal their turns, but sometimes I think that I take proper turn signal use a little too far. I got on to the subject of left turns onto freeway on […]
Today I found something that really pisses God off. I asked him about the practice of praying to Jesus or Mary and asking them to intercede with him on the pray-ers behalf.
He said the reason to do this is because the person praying thinks that they’re asking for something that he will not want […]
We’re all going to die some day. One piece of advice that we’ve seen many times in movies and books is, when we die, go towards the light. Numerous people that have died and then been brought back have reported seeing a ball of light in the distance and being emotionally drawn to […]
When I was in elementary school, I was an altar boy, volunteering mostly for the weekday mass at six-thirty in the morning. As a boy scout, when we went camping I was usually up first, so I could start the breakfast fire. In junior high school, I was a paperboy.
What these all had […]
I’ve been looking at housing lately, and how expensive homes can be in some parts of the country. One of the old sayings about buying real estate is that they aren’t making any more of it.
I asked God about that. I asked him if he could make an exception for me and make […]
I was taking a long drive the other day, the kind of drive that rolls down a two lane highway at seventy miles an hour for hours on end. Out on the road you can watch a sort of microcosm of human behavior, and in a lot of cases, I find human behavior kind […]
I went grocery shopping the other day and they had some people there giving away free samples of some of the foods they were selling. It’s a pretty common thing these days, but it got me to thinking. When God stopped by for our chat today I asked him if he’d ever consider […]
The other day I discussed beauty with God and she told me that the degree we see of either beauty or ugliness indicated how strongly something communicated from one soul to another. That gave me a way to tell when something touches my soul, but it didn’t do a lot to tell me the […]
In the Bible God manages to get his message to man in a number of miraculous ways. He comes to Moses as a burning bush. He sends forth angels with burning swords. He covers lands with frogs and locusts. But these days, we’re lucky if we get a really good earthquake […]