“Our doubts are the vilest traitors, continually striving to make us lose the good we oft might win, merely by fearing the attempt … Courage is, of course, the opposite. Courage is doing something daring, no matter how afraid or insecure or intimidated you are, no matter how alone or unworthy or incapable you might […]
“Speaking in Creation’s tongues and hearing Creation’s voices, the boundary of our Soul expands. Earth and its encompassing Cosmos have many voices. In truth those who understand that the Earth is itself essentially a living being, know this because they have translated themselves into the animals and the grasses and the boulders and the trees. […]
“Nature shows us the interconnectedness of all things, just as the heavens show us the unity of everything … Our world truly is vaster and more beautiful than anyone ever has or ever could ever describe. Each & every corner of it is uniquely wondrous, part of a shimmering puzzle with disparate pieces that somehow […]
And then it was that that I flowed on & on & on & on – and the Sun began to set as I smoothly and seemingly without effort played “velvet frogger” with the oncoming traffic – all the way into the town of Glade Spring – where I pulled into the local Wendy’s to […]
On & on & on & on I walked into the night, and for many hours the Way provided neither water nor a place to even rest for but a moment. And then finally I came across the kingdom hall refuge of a local chapter of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and I gratefully lay down on […]
I woke still very late into the darkness (which was actually still very early the following morn) and knew it was already time to move on. So I smiled and stretched and packed my small bag and drank some water from the church’s spigot and then proceeded slowly onward along the now completely deserted (and […]
I woke from a relatively restless slumber on the front porch of the Pilgrim Baptist Church and headed off once again into the pre-dawn darkness, into the town of Abingdon proper, where I soon came across the most mystical & almost medieval-looking St. Thomas Episcopal Church … “We are not to teach and practice a […]
I walked and walked and walked on this day – a thick and droning ambling that was very soon mostly lost to mere subconscious storage. And yet there was one encounter that stood out among the many – and that was my encounter with this particular parked pickup truck; one that reminded me quite brazenly […]
“Stand like a beaten anvil, especially when thy dream is laid heavy upon thee, smoldering golden from the fire. And flinch not in those times, though heavily through that furnace-gleam the black forge-hammers fall steadily on thy hopes and dreams. Though demoniac giants round thee might well seem to loom, know that it is but […]
Sometimes in life we are encouraged to remember that it’s all about the little things. I had started this Walk in Germany, of course, and so it was logical that it was a German digital camera that I had brought with me – a German camera that had allowed me to take so many wonderful […]
Jesus himself made it quite clear in the Gospels that only those of us who chose to “become like infant children will ever enter the Kingdom of Heaven”; that only those of us who chose to “become as humble as an infant child” would be known as “the greatest in the Kingdom.” (Matthew 18:3-4) And […]
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