Category: Lights On
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Movement of Jah People I’m not a huge fan of the Grateful Dead, but must admit it’s been a long, strange trip since our previous post. In the past year I’ve been kicked out of a halfway house because of no income, slept in a drug dealer’s car for a month, figured out how to…
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Or, My Six Months a Rock Star If you didn’t know, the formal definition of Rumspringa is “a rite of passage during (male) adolescence, used in some Amish communities.” (Wikipedia elaborates here.) For these young men, Rumspringa normally begins at age 16 and ends between ages 17 and 21, when they choose either to be baptized in the Amish church or to leave…
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Here in the rehab house we’re blessed to have a weekly prayer circle hosted by two local pastors, one an ordained minister and the other an elder in his church. Professionally, both are interstate truck drivers, so we’re fortunate if they’re in town, but when not, we DIY the readings ourselves. Happily for us Brother…
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Q: If April showers bring may flowers, what do may flowers bring? A: Pilgrims! (Sorry, couldn’t resist that one.) Blame it on Mercury coming out of retrograde, but the universal energy lately has been a little funky. Perhaps it’s due to distant saber-rattling from Russia and South Korea, or our President’s drug-friendly son being indicted…
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Have you heard this one: What do you call a person who’s dyslexic, an insomniac and an agnostic? Someone who stays up all night, trying to decide if there really is a dog. (Badum-dum.) The point being, even this old dog can learn a few new tricks. And remember what we say about no coincidences…
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Really, what I should have done is log every book I read on the jail tablet during my 10 1/2 months at the Backwards Correctional Center. But fate being what it is, my court date was moved up six weeks and I was transferred to the rehab house on short notice. Fortunately, as mentioned, I…
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“I am as fully impressed as anyone with the fact that this world is not our permanent abiding-place; but that is no reason why we should underrate, abuse or malign it. There is such a thing as being too other-worldly: the grand teachings of God’s gospel do not conflict with the grandeur, the beauty and…
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If you believe, it’ll all start to make sense. I wasn’t going to post today, after all the “effort” (haha) I expended the last time, explaining why never to swallow your smile or wear a worrisome hat (you won’t, will you?) But here in the house tonight we had an inspirational experience that I felt…
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In college I took a course in logic, a conveyance of good common sense, where we had to establish and prove a basic syllogism (A + B = C). If you’re still following our most recent thread, let’s call the previous two posts (Idle Worship Parts 1 and 2) the “A” and the “B”, leading…
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No matter who you are, some days are more challenging than others, but there’s nothing like a power nap to refresh the muses. And so we push on… Thus far my intention in this blog has to been to establish the personal and spiritual foundation I’ve spent the last year building, allowing a new perspective…
Behold, Happy Is The Man 