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[2024]
[A Blog of Sorts]

Life Comes in a Rainbow of Colors
Credit: Frank A. Mills, AI
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The unfulfilled dreams of 2024 fade away only to be replaced by new dreams for the new year. It could be a sad experience or an exciting new adventure. It all depend s upon whether we look back or ahead. The choice is yours, and yours alone.
There are two sorts of faith: The one that is ever-evolving and the one that requires absolutes and remains static.
On this Christmas Eve, let us remember that Christmas is not solely about gifts and Christmas decorations. It is about a birth of a child, but it more than that -- Christmas, not the holiday, but the birth, is a visible sacramental sign of the Incarnation that has always been present.
The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God. -Thomas Keating
In theological Universalism, it was the love of God for humanity that was decisive for heavenly salvation. In ethical Universalism, it is we who are required to be the agents of an earthly salvation. -Richard S. Gilbert
In Luke 2:14 it is not "Peace to all men upon whom his favor rests."
Meditation for Sunday on the Universal Light from a Quaker perspective
Freedom of religion too easily translates into the emptiness of freedom from religion. My comment and the full quote from Rev. F. Forrester Church
I consider Leonard Cohen a Universalist because he sought the Universal Name. A Name beyond himself. A Name that has no name..
It is easier to find God in our doubts than in our faith. It is easier to know God when we argue with the divine than it is through blind faith.
I find this quote to be a perfect expression of Universalism. If God equals Pure Love, as I believe God is: Pure Love can do nothing less than grant us immortality.
Jesus said to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. And to render unto God that which is God's. Jesus did not say to combine what is Caesar's with what is God's and then render it unto Caesar.
No matter where we look, even if we look within, we see a natural world that is a web of stunning, repeating patterns (fractals). Patterns that can only be described with mathematics, a mathematics that is pre-existent.
Christian Universalism speaks to a Love that is healing and receiving. A Love that is contagious and compelling. A Love that can't be contained.
Christian Universalism isn’t non-evangelical, yet if we are to be true to both those words – “Christian” and “Universalism – Christian Universalism turns “evangelicalism” upside down.
I am a Universalist Christian not because it speaks of my ultimate acceptance by God, but because I find it to be a radical counterculture that has the potential of turning contemporary culture on its head
I wonder if perhaps, people have "trouble hearing God" because we Christians get in the way of God speaking.
We’re more likely to see God’s story in the lives of the marginalized than in the statecraft and political decision-making of the powerful." -Daniel K. Williams (April 26, 2022, "Current Magazine")
An odd thought just occurred to me: f I were a Seventh-Day Adventist, I probably would not be eating the braunschweiger sandwich that I am now eating for lunch.
2023 is behind us. 2024 is a head of us. My payer for everyone (including myself) is ...
Peace -- but not contentment, because ...