Category Archives: Love

The Love of God: Uncut Diamonds

Posted on May 25, 2020 by ganid11

“We have nothing, if not belief.” – Sir Reepicheep, Chief Mouse of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.” – John McCarthy, A.I. trailblazer [1] We are the uncut diamonds … Continue reading →

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The Flow of God: Living Water and All That Missing Matter

Posted on April 11, 2020 by ganid11

Let me begin with two fundamental tenets of my belief system: First, I utterly and without question believe the Universe we inhabit was made by a singular, living, creative, brilliant, loving God Whom I happen to call “Father” but you … Continue reading →

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The Family of God: Uncle Jesus (Sixth Posting)

Posted on January 17, 2020 by ganid11

Several threads of thought spinning in my mind – some for a lifetime – have recently come together in an unexpected way, presenting an idea so remarkable to me that it must be shared. Much as the bee buzzing from … Continue reading →

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Giving Life to Art: A Profound Event

Posted on August 4, 2019 by ganid11

We didn’t know it at the time, but the summer of 1996 proved to be a turning-point of enormous proportions for the world – and especially our little corner of it – because that was the season when we first … Continue reading →

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The First Day of April, 1957

Posted on April 2, 2018 by ganid11

[Excerpted from my as-yet-to-be-named memoirs (a lifetime’s work in progress) recalling the day we moved from Grayson, Alabama (in the middle of the Bankhead National Forest) to Century, Florida (on the Alabama/Florida State line) in 1957. A friend posted photos … Continue reading →

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The Family of God: Uncle Jesus

Posted on February 1, 2018 by ganid11

[Note to my readers: If I am presumptuous enough to write a blog honoring angels, then it behooves me to periodically lay out for you exactly what I believe; to define, as best I can, just what my religious inclinations … Continue reading →

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A Burning of Stories, Part I

Posted on August 29, 2017 by ganid11

Good afternoon, everyone. My apologies for being so long away from this blog, but I have the best excuse ever. Our house burned down. Yes, that house. Cedar House. The one from which so much of this blog has sprung. … Continue reading →

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Mama’s Butterscotch Pie

Posted on April 6, 2017 by ganid11

The main reason I decided to take up cooking for myself  – many years ago – was purely selfish: I wanted to taste again all the wonderful foods that Mama had been so good at producing, and, given that she … Continue reading →

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A Word, if You Will, about My “Gone too Soon” Profiles

Posted on March 9, 2017 by ganid11

[Dumbledore says, in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” Which is why, perhaps, I have found this such a difficult piece to write. No magician … Continue reading →

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The Love of God: Diamonds in the Rough (Fourth Annual Posting)

Posted on February 21, 2017 by ganid11

“We have nothing, if not belief.” – Sir Reepicheep, Chief Mouse of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.” – John McCarthy, A.I. trailblazer [1] We are the uncut diamonds … Continue reading →

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