It's late Saturday night, almost Sunday and I'm sitting here thinking about a lot of different things. Some sane and some inane. (No pun intended, it just came out that way) This website provides a bit of both wouldn't you say ? And sometimes a thread will start out in one direction and morph into many things. This thread for instance wasn't started as a prayer thread, but if anyone wants to offer a prayer or two on it, GOD knows I can use all of em I can get, so pray away. I know I do, but not necessarily the way you do or you or you or you. You see at this point in my life with my children grown and gone and my job as well, I find myself on a spiritual journey. Some of you know this as you've ridden along with me at times on this journey in the past few years. From each of you I've learned something. Far too many things actually to list them all here, but the most important thing is that most people truly do wish to do good during their lives. We tend to get into stupid arguments over the most inconsequential things at times but on the things that matter the most we're all pretty much on the same page. I suppose to some of you, that isn't exactly news but it has been to me. Why ? I suppose because there were times when I was so busy chasing the brass ring that I forgot why I even wanted it in the first place. All I knew was I wanted whatever IT was and there were a lot of other people like me who were in my opinion willing to do whatever it took to get there first. There are of course really people like that, but thankfully not too many. One good thing to come of the tough times we are facing economically speaking these days is that these types of people are more easily exposed. So as I often say, there's good and bad in everything and ferreting out these charletans is a good thing even if we all lose a few bucks along the way. Hopefully we will learn from our mistakes and our children and their children will be better for it. Hmmm, I'm a bit off track here -- - - -where was I ? Ok, prayer, that's the thing. Prayer to me is an affirmation that I am not completely 100% in charge of everything. Prayer is me admitting to myself that maybe, just maybe I could use a bit of help, that I'm neither omnipotent nor invincible. So I speak to GOD. Is my GOD your GOD, I don't know, I've never met mine, let alone yours. BUT, I have seen evidence of his hand and I do believe in him/her. (why not a woman, we say Mother Earth don't we ? ) Anyway, in the course of this spiritual journey I have been on, I have opened my eyes to GOD's hand and have seen so many examples of it that I have come to have a very deep and abiding faith as a result. So now I'm working on the details. The Holy Trinity being the largest of them. I expect I'll get there too and I hope to find some of my answers through my friendship with as many of you as I have the good fortune to meet along the way. GOD knows (LOL) those of you I've already met have contributed greatly. So I'll close by saying that maybe there are others of you who feel as I do; that you're searching for answers. Have faith, open your heart and you'll find them. I promise you that. I have
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