What If It IS True, that ...

 Someone who knows I do this blog, and who's opinion I value, asked me today if I was planning to write a blog for Thanksgiving. I have been feeling melancholy of late in spite of the fact that I have much to be thankful for, so, I am a real-life example of someone who can be having a personal pity party and still have gratitude. In spite of myself and my personal pity party, I do feel led to write a blog on Thanksgiving, for Thanksgiving. So, here goes. I believe that thankfulness, gratefulness, faith, and love are congruent with each other as far as being attitudes of choice. Most of these are also part of a grouping of a specific nine aspects considered part of the "fruit of the spirit" as discussed in the book of Galatians in the Bible. What if it is true that Thanksgiving, aka giving thanks is simply a choice. I tend to vacillate from pondering my many blessings, to feeling sad about certain things. That which saddens me are things like world events, unfulfillment in...

"YOUR Truth" MAY NOT be "THE Truth" There was a time, seemingly not that long ago, when common knowledge of what "truth" meant was evident in the hearts and minds of mankind in general. Today, evidence suggests that such an awareness is not so common… or perhaps, is just being ignored. According to Miriam Webster dictionary definitions (as found on random web locations as well as in the physical bound dictionary), the word ‘truth’ is used specifically in relation to ‘facts’ ‘reality’ ‘actual events’ and such. Nowadays, people have taken personal liberty regarding what “truth” means in a similar way as they have taken liberty in terms of what “justice” should look like. But we will save the topic of “justice” for another time. Most Christ followers are aware of a familiar scripture that states “Jesus said to him ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”. This is quoted in the book of John, Chapter 14, ve...