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Suresh said:
Your faith is your strength, just don\'t demonize others, for diversity makes us stronger
May 21st, 2019 23:30
Suresh said:
Your faith is your strength, just don\'t demonize others, for diversity makes us stronger
May 21st, 2019 23:30
A Charitable, Certainly Not Curt, Way To Respond To One’s Detractors
Gary Edward Geraci said:
Thank you Diamond - I’d say some of the bitterest, most anti-Catholic venom I’ve witnessed, comes from former Catholics. You are gentle by comparison. Thank you for your perspectives. One cannot move toward the Lord until one first corresponds to the grace our Lord gives as he calls one’s soul into conversion. And you’re right: one can’t trade one’s vice in the same way one trades a car (referring to your comment in your poem “Hoax”). One can do nothing alone but one can do the impossible, including the losing of a vice to a virtue, with God’s grace. Prayers sister...May you find true joy in your heart!
May 19th, 2019 23:01
Gary Edward Geraci said:
Thank you Diamond - I’d say some of the bitterest, most anti-Catholic venom I’ve witnessed, comes from former Catholics. You are gentle by comparison. Thank you for your perspectives. One cannot move toward the Lord until one first corresponds to the grace our Lord gives as he calls one’s soul into conversion. And you’re right: one can’t trade one’s vice in the same way one trades a car (referring to your comment in your poem “Hoax”). One can do nothing alone but one can do the impossible, including the losing of a vice to a virtue, with God’s grace. Prayers sister...May you find true joy in your heart!
May 19th, 2019 23:01
A Charitable, Certainly Not Curt, Way To Respond To One’s Detractors
Suresh said:
Faith can be a powerful elixir or poison.
What a pity, there has been and is more bloodshed in the name of faith
May 19th, 2019 11:41
Suresh said:
Faith can be a powerful elixir or poison.
What a pity, there has been and is more bloodshed in the name of faith
May 19th, 2019 11:41
What if...
Suresh said:
Your words spell here, that no matter what, you have lived the life you chose - and no more \"what ifs......\"
May 18th, 2019 12:51
Suresh said:
Your words spell here, that no matter what, you have lived the life you chose - and no more \"what ifs......\"
May 18th, 2019 12:51
What if...
Gary Edward Geraci said:
Like a good, retired friend from work used to tell my fellow coworkers: you ought to go on TV and sing - that way people can turn you off! Thanks for stopping by Orchidee.
May 18th, 2019 11:51
Gary Edward Geraci said:
Like a good, retired friend from work used to tell my fellow coworkers: you ought to go on TV and sing - that way people can turn you off! Thanks for stopping by Orchidee.
May 18th, 2019 11:51
What if...
orchidee said:
A fine write Gary. I also asked \'What if... I shut up singing?!\' heehee. People would thinks two cats had stopped fighting! lol. I\'m a drama queen here.
May 18th, 2019 11:17
orchidee said:
A fine write Gary. I also asked \'What if... I shut up singing?!\' heehee. People would thinks two cats had stopped fighting! lol. I\'m a drama queen here.
May 18th, 2019 11:17
Turning Point
Suresh said:
When one is certain that they are certain, is when must doubt their certainty.
May 16th, 2019 12:01
Suresh said:
When one is certain that they are certain, is when must doubt their certainty.
May 16th, 2019 12:01
Good Friday
Gary Edward Geraci said:
Glad to hear of your successes Outback. A healthy skepticism in “the system” gives us checks and balances, a way to identify and to bring a wayward ship back on course.
May 14th, 2019 11:30
Gary Edward Geraci said:
Glad to hear of your successes Outback. A healthy skepticism in “the system” gives us checks and balances, a way to identify and to bring a wayward ship back on course.
May 14th, 2019 11:30
Medal of Freedom
Gary Edward Geraci said:
God governs the very next letter tap in this reply, the very next breath we both take in pondering this simple reply. I praise Him for both your existence and mine.
May 14th, 2019 10:27
Gary Edward Geraci said:
God governs the very next letter tap in this reply, the very next breath we both take in pondering this simple reply. I praise Him for both your existence and mine.
May 14th, 2019 10:27
Turning Point
Gary Edward Geraci said:
Good point Orchidee. I made a small change in the third line of the Haiku: replacing the word “in” with the word “of”. I’d say for many, unbelief, is their faith of choice and they consciously (certainly subconsciously) practice it every day. But as you know, grace comes knocking on everyone’s door.
May 13th, 2019 06:44
Gary Edward Geraci said:
Good point Orchidee. I made a small change in the third line of the Haiku: replacing the word “in” with the word “of”. I’d say for many, unbelief, is their faith of choice and they consciously (certainly subconsciously) practice it every day. But as you know, grace comes knocking on everyone’s door.
May 13th, 2019 06:44
Turning Point
orchidee said:
Some a say a bit of doubt, or unbelief, is OK for us. They say it will lead us to surety and belief.
Yet if so, not too much doubt, or we may get stuck in it. Though it might be easier at times NOT to believe - but it won\'t profit us.
This help at all , if not sounding too garbled?!
May 13th, 2019 02:16
orchidee said:
Some a say a bit of doubt, or unbelief, is OK for us. They say it will lead us to surety and belief.
Yet if so, not too much doubt, or we may get stuck in it. Though it might be easier at times NOT to believe - but it won\'t profit us.
This help at all , if not sounding too garbled?!
May 13th, 2019 02:16
“Multifaceted Challenges Living a Lay Contemplative Life”
orchidee said:
You done that gardening, Gary?! heehee
May 4th, 2019 12:31
orchidee said:
You done that gardening, Gary?! heehee
May 4th, 2019 12:31
Crossing Paths
orchidee said:
A nice write Gary. I don\'t insist on being named \'Protestant\' but we don\'t believe in purgatory - not usually.
May 3rd, 2019 01:57
orchidee said:
A nice write Gary. I don\'t insist on being named \'Protestant\' but we don\'t believe in purgatory - not usually.
May 3rd, 2019 01:57
Heart of Flesh
orchidee said:
A fine write Gary. In a fairly \'high\' Protestant church (well, as \'high\' as: they use incense anyway, and the Vicar nipped out for a cigarette quick at the end of the service!), they have. a bit tacked on the end to Our Lady.
But it\'s just a garbled 2 minutes Epilogue thingy for them really. Someone nips round to the statue and gabbles away. Doh!
April 28th, 2019 02:12
orchidee said:
A fine write Gary. In a fairly \'high\' Protestant church (well, as \'high\' as: they use incense anyway, and the Vicar nipped out for a cigarette quick at the end of the service!), they have. a bit tacked on the end to Our Lady.
But it\'s just a garbled 2 minutes Epilogue thingy for them really. Someone nips round to the statue and gabbles away. Doh!
April 28th, 2019 02:12
Where is Truth?
orchidee said:
Good write Gary. Pilate asked \'What is truth?\'
April 27th, 2019 01:33
orchidee said:
Good write Gary. Pilate asked \'What is truth?\'
April 27th, 2019 01:33
Where is Truth?
Suresh said:
TRUTH be told, it\'s getting harder and harder to find
P.S. There are no degrees or variations to TRUTH
April 27th, 2019 00:27
Suresh said:
TRUTH be told, it\'s getting harder and harder to find
P.S. There are no degrees or variations to TRUTH
April 27th, 2019 00:27
Where is Truth?
dusk arising said:
You will not find it in a book written by man/men thousands of years ago thats for sure. Even if you overlook the hundreds of mistranslated words in it.
April 26th, 2019 20:34
dusk arising said:
You will not find it in a book written by man/men thousands of years ago thats for sure. Even if you overlook the hundreds of mistranslated words in it.
April 26th, 2019 20:34
How to Lie with Euphemisms
orchidee said:
I can see the (Roman?) Catholic side of this. Protestant would agree - or me anyway, at least 95% of the time. Difficult if the person will be borne severely disabled, etc, yet still a person.
Meanwhile - a lighter vein - I gotta find out what a euphemism is exactly, so I dunno if I\'m lying with it, or what? Is it summat I can cook up for Sunday lunch?Am I uneducated?! I will go back to sleep - or back to the dictionary. lol.
April 21st, 2019 01:52
orchidee said:
I can see the (Roman?) Catholic side of this. Protestant would agree - or me anyway, at least 95% of the time. Difficult if the person will be borne severely disabled, etc, yet still a person.
Meanwhile - a lighter vein - I gotta find out what a euphemism is exactly, so I dunno if I\'m lying with it, or what? Is it summat I can cook up for Sunday lunch?Am I uneducated?! I will go back to sleep - or back to the dictionary. lol.
April 21st, 2019 01:52
How to Lie with Euphemisms
Suresh said:
I am reproducing below my Haiku, maybe responds well to this, though not euphemistic
Mourning of ones birth
Birth being beginning of death
Celebrating death
April 20th, 2019 15:53
Suresh said:
I am reproducing below my Haiku, maybe responds well to this, though not euphemistic
Mourning of ones birth
Birth being beginning of death
Celebrating death
April 20th, 2019 15:53
A Sign
orchidee said:
A fine write Gary. Erm, I didn\'t help myself though. I tried holding my breath for 24 hours. I didn\'t feel very well afterwards. Hmm, strange that! Well, I was only trying to save some air in this sometimes wasteful day-and-age. Heehee.
I\'ve a line of a poem somewhere \'Help me not always pray it away\'.
April 7th, 2019 02:17
orchidee said:
A fine write Gary. Erm, I didn\'t help myself though. I tried holding my breath for 24 hours. I didn\'t feel very well afterwards. Hmm, strange that! Well, I was only trying to save some air in this sometimes wasteful day-and-age. Heehee.
I\'ve a line of a poem somewhere \'Help me not always pray it away\'.
April 7th, 2019 02:17
Paradelle Subdivisions
orchidee said:
A fine write Gary, very poetic.
You will know I would adapt such a poem to the Protestant side, but no matter.
April 1st, 2019 02:04
orchidee said:
A fine write Gary, very poetic.
You will know I would adapt such a poem to the Protestant side, but no matter.
April 1st, 2019 02:04
St. Benedict’s Cabin on Mulberry Fork
Nicholas Browning said:
What a nice tale this tells. I enjoyed the pacing and the word choice. Scenery was nice too. Well done.
March 14th, 2019 18:18
Nicholas Browning said:
What a nice tale this tells. I enjoyed the pacing and the word choice. Scenery was nice too. Well done.
March 14th, 2019 18:18
Wire Like Shoots Stretching Skyward
Gary Edward Geraci said:
At minimal a cache of stretches I’d say...how dreadful it would be if you were to pull something....Thank you Orchidee for your read and comment!
March 8th, 2019 08:08
Gary Edward Geraci said:
At minimal a cache of stretches I’d say...how dreadful it would be if you were to pull something....Thank you Orchidee for your read and comment!
March 8th, 2019 08:08
Wire Like Shoots Stretching Skyward
orchidee said:
A thoughtful write Gary. And the pic reminded me I really should get out more sometimes, do exercise, etc!
March 7th, 2019 02:50
orchidee said:
A thoughtful write Gary. And the pic reminded me I really should get out more sometimes, do exercise, etc!
March 7th, 2019 02:50
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