Fear; the challenge of faith

Tame your parakeet and come from among them! Tradition can be beautiful. There are things that I love about the Christian Community and some of the traditions that have been fostered. Some traditions are borrowed like the Christmas Holiday being the day we celebrate the birth of Christ. I’ve grown to love Christmas. I feel so much happiness and joy during the season. Christians attend church on Christmas, Easter, and Mother’s Day and these holidays make for good family days f

Love is under valued and under estimated. In my own observation religion and/or the religious spirit is born and given life because of this very problem that there is no value in Love. The focus on Jesus, in the Christian faith, is his death and resurrection, which brings salvation to accepting souls. This is a wonderful thing. However, the more we learn in theology and the more we learn the traditions of the church meeting and its government, the value of Love becomes di

Remembering a dream I had a few years ago... I was sitting on the side of my bed reading the bible. I saw, what was to be, Jesus standing in front of the bed. He was very pale with oily dark hair and not very pleasant to look at. He also had rotten teeth. He started pointing to the bible and trying to get me to read what he wanted me to read. He didn’t seem to like that I was happy and had joy about my time reading what I was already reading. He began pacing back and f