I am. At least, I try to be.
A short entry in my journal that I wrote while on a trip in Montana this summer. My shoulders tingle a little with heat, remembering all the sun they soaked up today, even though I sit in a steady cool breeze with the sun just gone behind the mountains I gaze at. I see snowy […]
It is a good thing to be happy. It is also a good thing to be sad. It is a good thing to choose to feel emotions, and it is a good thing to choose to act on reason. Making choices about how you live your life is in general a good thing. I was […]
I wrote a journal entry collecting a few of the thoughts I’ve pondered during my three weeks alone. I present it to anyone interested below straight from the notebook. Coming into this hermitage experience I expected it would take a few days, maybe a week, perhaps even 2 weeks for me to internalize a little […]
The steady ocean breeze danced through my hair, and the rhythm of the waves crashing along the shoreline surrounded me as I walked along the beach. The water scurrying up and over my bare feet now and again, erasing the imprints my walk had left behind me. I was rather engrossed in searching for sea […]
It’s the perfect temperature outside where there’s a slight breeze on my skin that’s so cool it’s almost cold, but not quite. The tips of some of the trees are just starting to orange red, and I can just about taste the dry earthiness in the air and feel the ever so slight edge on […]
Finally it’s warm enough for me to sit outside on the front porch again, and so I begin my Porch Meditations series once more. I was sitting in my rocking chair this afternoon. It was nice. It was, however, very windy. And cloudy. I was sitting there praying through the prayer rope I use for […]
To walk alone is many times a bittersweet proposition. There is something that darkness brings, a mood, an aura, that heightens the taste. To walk down a road, alone, in darkness, with the gathered cares of life upon my shoulders, with the pain of others and with my own accumulated sins brings a kind of […]
Can I be a “radical skeptic” and still be a Christian? I shall define a radical skeptic as one who believes he cannot be sure of anything. The first question I encounter is this: if you cannot be sure of anything, how can you be sure you can’t be sure? This seems to me a […]
“To love God and to love thy neighbor. These are the great commandments, the first and formost. To love God is an emotion in the heart, it is a thing built upon experience, over a lifetime. To build love is to spend time with our Father. To spend time in his presence. Just as to […]
I was sitting out on the front porch this afternoon. I’ve been doing that a lot actually, since I’ve gotten to Idaho and the Callihans. There’s a nice white rocking chair out there that I’m growing quite fond of. Today I was thinking about spending time with God, and how I could do that. I […]