Celestial Life

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 …

Wiki Reference: Columbina passerina Recently, I was on a long walk and pondering the idea of One: agency, obedience, power, authority, honor, intelligence, light, truth, glory…, all One. In an earlier post, I proffered the idea that to be One with God is to be One with all that are One with God. Implicit is > > Read More …