2016-10-22 15:02
"I have said it before and I'll say it again; It is not that I don't believe in God, I just don't believe in your God. My God isn't a human being with mutant abilities. I… Read More
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2016-10-18 14:13
"The most frequent question I am asked regarding this blog is what I mean by the term 'surviving god.' The answer is not a complex one. For anyone who has suffered at the hands of a religion… Read More
2016-10-11 11:46
"Looking out to the hillsTo the setting sunI feel a cold windBound to comeAnother changeAnother end I cannot seeBut your faithfulness to me is making itAll rightI fall down on my kneesTell m… Read More
2016-10-04 11:14
There are just some days. No matter the time and space between them, they repeat annually without fail. Year after year will mark the same day… Read More
2016-09-27 12:54
The last thing I told myself was, "This could be it!" I know it sounds silly but I actually thought of the possibility. It might be over. I had… Read More
2016-09-20 11:26
"Falling in over my headCaught out, out of my depthTrying to find my way, I am lostSo I'm running around in circles through it all"  &hell…Read More
2016-09-13 11:40
"We are stardustWe are goldenWe are billion year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden"(Woodstock, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 1970)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H… Read More
2016-09-06 11:54
Welcome to the final chapter of Surviving God. After almost 5 years, it is time for me to jump forward and expand my tiny u… Read More
2016-07-05 12:09
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind… Read More
2016-06-21 11:20
"Do we need to start a war?Do we need to take a side?If we open up our eyesRealize that we are blindIs it all worth fighting for?It all comes down toWho's wrong or rightWho's black or whiteI… Read More
2016-06-14 10:35
"I get up, I fall downSometimes I feel like I am always on the groundYou pick me up and brush me offAnd tell me that I'm good enough" &nb&hell…Read More
2016-06-07 11:54
“Enjoy today, the time you have now, for time cannot be found only lost.” (Marty Rubin, American activist) The d… Read More
2016-05-17 10:50
Kitchener, Ontario was my home for over 10 years. The latter part of that decade was spent in a 17 storey apartment building called the Alexandrian… Read More
2016-05-10 11:18
"Usually in the morningI'm filled with sweet belongingAnd everything is beautiful to seeEven when it's rainingThe sound of heaven singingIs simply joyful music to meBut sometimes I feel like… Read More
2016-04-12 14:51
"Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport." (Henny Youngman, 1928–1987) Before his d… Read More
2016-04-05 11:15
"For everything in the world - the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life - comes not from the Father but from the world."(1 John 2:16, NIV) &n&hell…Read More
2016-03-29 11:30
"Once upon a timeI thought I had it allThen life just fell apartThought I was all aloneI've never been so scaredThan when I danced with fearBut then you took my handAnd it disappeared"(My Tr… Read More
2016-03-22 13:24
"There are places I rememberAll my life though some have changedSome forever not for betterSome have gone and some remainAll these places have their momentsWith lovers and friends I still ca… Read More
2016-03-15 12:37
Chapter ElevenThe Dotted Line"Let my life be a picture of youLet my life be a picture of youLet me be a letterWritten by your handFor the world to readAnd to seeAnd to feelAnd to knowYou liv… Read More
2016-01-12 13:44
"All your life you had to stand in lineStill you're standing on your feetAll your choices made you change your mindNow your calendar's completeDon't wait for answersJust take your chancesDon… Read More
2015-11-23 15:03
"The same sun that melts the wax can harden clayAnd the same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hayAnd the mighty wind that knocks us downIf we lean into itWill drive our fears away."(Ho… Read More
2015-11-17 12:14
"Fly, fly little wingFly beyond imaginingThe softest cloud, the whitest doveUpon the wind of heaven's lovePast the planets and the starsLeave this lonely world of oursEscape the sorrow and t… Read More
2015-11-10 12:22
"Oh is this a bad dream?Or the best dream that I've ever had?And oh what is waiting, beyond the mirror,Beyond the curtain,Beyond what fades into the black?(Snow Globe, Chely Wright 2010) &nb&hell…Read More
2015-11-03 12:33
"Free is all you gotta beDream dreams no one else can seeSometimes ya wanna run awayBut ya never know what might be comin' round your way" &nbs&hell…Read More
2015-10-27 12:12
"I am in bloodStepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o'er."(Macbeth, Act III Sc IV, William Shakespeare) We all… Read More
2015-10-20 12:48
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite o… Read More
2015-10-16 13:50
"You give so muchJuggle it all with a smileYou tame the tornadoes with styleHow do you keep it all up?I guess because every day comes to an endYou get up and do it againNo matter whatever ge… Read More
2015-10-06 15:50
Chapter TenI, Megus“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons… Read More
2015-07-28 13:12
"All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call Impressions and Ideas. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and… Read More
2015-07-21 10:23
I don't know if you believe in Christmas, but I know that I sure do. It just goes without saying that it wasn't always this… Read More
2015-07-14 17:50
Judith Hammond spent much of her time alone. The tiny apartment she had just moved into a few weeks before was certainly not as l… Read More
2015-07-07 10:31
The moment I became aware, I knew that I was in heaven. The clouds all around me were a dead giveaway. Everyt… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On the corner of Clarence and Dundas Street, in LondonOntario, pedestrians flow like wine at a wedding. It is one of the ma… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete ab… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The simple things in life are no longer free. Not that they were to begin with. You can still find your thrill on Blueberry… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” (Cormac McCarthy, American novelist and playwright) … Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The charge was dangerous driving and the sentence was 90 days. The Exeter Road Correctional Facility in London, Ontariowas… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the r… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rage at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It was well into October before the headstone went up. When the men in the distance finally left, I pulled alongside the far end of the cemeter… Read More
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