LTTL & Quotography: Mass

The magic of Christmas is not in the presents, but in His presence. ~Unknown Quotography's prompt this week is mass. Not being Catholic, the term is a bit foreign to me but I believe its interpretation in today's culture can be interchanged with a couple of different synonyms. Celebration of the Eucharist or Holy Communion/Lord's Supper A gathering …

Cloudy skies quotography

God writes the Gospel not in the bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. ~commonly attributed to Martin Luther No, not Martin Luther King...the original Martin Luther, clergyman of Protestant Reformation fame. Before you peg me as a pantheist, let me let me tell you why I marvel …

R is for Religiosity

Religiosity. Is that even a word? It is, but I believe it's more of an attitude than a word. Let's ask a question: What turns people away from faith in God? What is it that causes a person to discard organized religion? You guessed it! Religiosity. We've all met people caught up in religiosity. The …

U is for Universe

Texture by Jay Hilgert: Nebula Paper 5 The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do. ~Galileo Galilei You just gotta love Galileo. The father of modern science, this brilliant, renegade, mouthy, radical instigator, outspoken Italian pulled no …

S is for Sacred…and Secular

The road to the sacred leads through the secular. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel Many people sort their lives into neat little well-organized compartments. On one hand, there's the things that are viewed as sacred; you know...the kind of music, art, books, jobs, companies, etc. considered holy that God would approve of if you want to get …