It’s good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. – Michael Ignatieff  Fear and I have been intimate companions for as long as I can remember. Whenever a threatening situation arose, he rushed to my side along with some of his children, usually Worry and Anxiety. If the situation were dire, he would…

Have faith in your journey. Everything had to happen exactly as it did to get you where you’re going next! – Mandy Hale  Is it fate, destiny, kismet, providence, or chance? I don’t know, but I suspect it has something to do with God, the God I believe in.   Why would God want me…

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it. – Pope John Paul II  I love this quote; it made me laugh, and then it made me think…an unbeatable combination, a tool to aid in learning. In my estimation, Pope John Paul II not only was a gifted teacher but one possessing…

I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell I can think of. But I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst…

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Marianne Williamson  I have been there. Even if I had heard these words at the time, they would have fallen on deaf ears. I already was in the company of Anger, Ego, and Pride; there was no room for anyone else.…

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger. – Sathya Sai Baba As can be seen in my memoir, my image of God has changed and matured from childhood to the present day. My personal understanding of the Almighty has grown into one of forgiveness and mercy but is…

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. – Proverbs, 9:10  For many years, the above quote was one of my favorites, but I never fully grasped its meaning until disability entered my life. Bipolar disorder and cerebellitis reintroduced me to myself; a new journey began. In previous blogs, I wrote about the…

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him. – Louis L’Amour  Fear, I believe, is woven into the fabric of our being; there is no getting rid of him. I tried to defeat him, to…

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. -Baruch Spinoza  Like so many others, my thoughts and prayers have been focused on the catastrophic destruction imposed by Hurricane Maria on our fellow human beings and Americans in Puerto Rico and throughout the Caribbean. After the initial shock and frantic efforts…

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. – H.P. Lovecraft  Fear and I have been intimate friends since childhood. He rarely misses an opportunity to frighten, upset intimidate, or torture me; it appears to be his vocation in life. In…