forgiveness: Made fresh and new again
- 01/27/21 07:27 PM
The other morning while I was sleeping, a beautiful thing happened. While I was sleeping, my ordinary backyard. The one that looked cluttered. The one that at times I roll my eyes wondering how I will ever make it look beautiful. That backyard looked beautiful. You see, it had been covered in snow. And snow makes everything look wonderful. And then I pondered, what else is in life that when it covers the things that aren’t so pretty and aren’t so nice, they become beautiful. I realized it is forgiveness. There have been people that I have had tensions with. People that … (34 comments)
forgiveness: The wisdom of a Hallmark movie
- 12/15/20 07:12 PM
Okay, so here I was. The Christmas lights were twinkling no other lights were on. I was all alone. Indulging in my guilty pleasure: Hallmark Christmas movies. Yeah, it started after my dad died and I would go visit my mom. After he passed, she would watch hundreds of them each year. Yes, she would see some duplicates, but that didn’t matter. Her DVR is crammed full of those things. I guess my romantic heart must have come from my mom’s DNA. So, here I was all alone. Lights out except for twinkling Christmas lights and I was watching a Hallmark Christmas … (46 comments)
forgiveness: Fathers and Sons
- 11/17/20 05:27 PM
Being a musician, and a guitar player and having been in high school when their first album came out, I was a big Van Halen fan. In fact, in my first concert, I played one of their songs. Edward Van Halen was someone that I idolized and looked up to. My dream was to meet him. Then in the 90s, stories came out about Eddie. Stories of abusive behavior. Being a tyrant. I remember one story from the late 90s saying Eddie was running out of money and had done the soundtrack to a porno movie and it further said that … (29 comments)
The other morning while I was sleeping, a beautiful thing happened. While I was sleeping, my ordinary backyard. The one that looked cluttered. The one that at times I roll my eyes wondering how I will ever make it look beautiful. That backyard looked beautiful. You see, it had been covered in snow. And snow makes everything look wonderful.
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