Brief Moments

     There is a scene in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman where a young child, never having seen a black man before asks:  "Did God paint you?"  Freeman replies "Did God paint me?, why yes."  "Why" asks the boy.  "Because Allah loves wondrous variety," Freeman responds.      Allah simply means "The God" in Arabic, so I hope that doesn't offend anyone.  One only needs to look at their back yard, or at the stars at night to understand that God does indeed love wondrous variety.   If we even ponder the jungle regions of this planet or the many unexplored portions of the oceans the beauty, variety, and uniqueness of life around us is not only inspirational but not close to being completely cataloged by science.     When one looks at genetics the differences between human beings across the planet are so small as to be inconsequential.   Now...

     The fact that yesterday was Good Friday, an odd name for remembering Christ's crucifixion is only coincidental.   I can still remember my years of living, if one could call it that, without faith and can't imagine getting through a day now without my firm foundation in God. I have seen to many miraculous events in my life and in many other lives not to believe.  Though to be fair, I also consider every morning I wake up with the ability to breath, walk, think and grow a miracle in itself.      Through the many turmoils and valleys of my near 50 years, always caused by my wanderings and occasionally by others who took advantage of my generous nature, there absolutely have been times where I wanted to just walk away.  To quit, the circumstances, the individuals, and many times the organizations, which I did either directly or by behaving in ways that got me that result.  For many years of worldly success as some would m...