Celestial Life

Beginning on a personal note, I have to wonder why it is that we continue to pray to have our false beliefs made known to us. We fully understand that such prayers invariably get answered. The results are almost always unsettling, but rarely to this degree. Spoiler alert. In part 1, the question. In part > > Read More …

A week after the prior experience (This Is My Church), I was again awake in the middle of the night wandering around the tent city housing those who had come to assist with the Marianna cleanup. Naturally, I began to obsess anew about not understanding. I pulled out my phone, and began to record (editorial > > Read More …

We spent three weekends in the Marianna area (primarily in Grand Ridge) helping to clean up a bit. While the effects of Hurricane Michael were impressive, there were some less obvious things that affected me to a greater degree. Top of the list were the thoughts about Christ’s church, previously posted in part. While working > > Read More …

“This is my church,” the voice was pretty clear. The meaning and intent? Not so much. At about 3 a.m. Saturday morning, after the rain had stopped, I found myself walking around under a large moon, star filled sky in an LDS tent city set up in Marianna, FL. Volunteers would soon awaken to begin > > Read More …

My son’s husky joined me on a morning walk. Morning walks are a time for enjoying peace and beauty. These are a time to pray, ponder and meditate. Of course it is irrational to think that a dog would have the same perspective. Nevertheless, there was this absurd hope, if not expectation, that we might > > Read More …

Last night I awoke to an unusual dream. A 40 to 50 person choir practiced an unfamiliar hymn within a large, cathedral like space under the direction of a stunningly “fair” director, who embodied meekness, confidence, and great competence. In conjunction with a subsequent meeting, a significantly larger number spontaneously joined the choir to sing. > > Read More …

Last week in Elders’ Quorum, we had a “lesson” based upon the principles elaborated in “Teach As Jesus Taught.” Much of the time was spent discussing the need for discussion :-), and how to encourage discussions with masterful questions. Explicitly, it was proffered that Jesus taught by the use of questions. Implicitly (perhaps explicitly, but > > Read More …

…still very skeptical about signs. Nevertheless, this is getting both increasingly curious, if not whimsical. Two days ago, as I neared the aforementioned spot and wondered what might pop up, I was pondering yet again about Genetically Modified Oracles (GMOs :-). Yea, I need to write this up…. For now, just think of it as > > Read More …

For a couple of weeks now, I have begun and concluded my morning walks under these rather large and beautiful pecan trees (4Runner in picture to give an idea of scale). These have become a symbol/type of the trees in The Garden (Wisdom and Life; Mother and Father, etc). Standing between them, I am in > > Read More …

As mentioned in the “doves” post, it is difficult to get my mind wrapped around incidental “signs.” Subsequently, it has been interesting that while pondering/praying and discovering some new insight , immediately there are a pair of ground doves. I have seen them often, and come to expect them at certain times and locations along > > Read More …