“Florida Sunrise”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “But as the curtain went up, I turned off my mental machine and enjoyed the spectacle for what it was, a marvel. Harbingers of the sun’s arrival flew across the sky in the form of delicate tinctures of cyclamen and flamingo that instantly divinized the formerly dull stratocumulus archipelagos and peninsulas, […]
Continue reading“Nothing But Love”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “’Remember that Jesus himself fed the hungry and healed the sick. Do all that you can to be of service to your fellow man. But Jesus also helped the crowds gathered around him by his presence and with his words, divine words, words of love, words that pierced their hearts […]
Continue reading“Angels in the Cave”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “As they stood there stunned, the friends heard a voice sounding behind them. Turning, they saw an opening in the wall of rock. Above this opening hung a small roof constructed of unhewed timber. A net of branches covered the timber and was weighed down by a couple dozen rocks. […]
Continue reading“Entering Sedona”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “Suddenly the road curved, revealing a sight that made Amante gasp. Directly in front of them loomed three great cathedrals of rock, smudged to a gleaming, otherworldly eggshell white by the lowering sun. Paz saw bastions and parapets. Amante made out towers and pinnacles. There must have been bodiless soldiers […]
Continue reading“The Woman in White”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “A young woman appeared out of nowhere. She was suddenly standing right next to the five friends. Her hair was long, wavy, and black, her eyebrows thick and as black as if they had been drawn with coal. She had full lips and a narrow nose. The woman wore long, […]
Continue reading“The Milky Way”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “By now it was late. The scene before, below, and above the friends was marvelous. The Milky Way looked like a gigantic brain spread across the middle of the sky. A central spine of plum purple rose up to their left at a sixty-degree angle. This spine overlay a roughly […]
Continue reading“Beyond Differences”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “My friends, words and concepts and logic are not the tools we will need to accomplish our quest. The world is already at war, with words the first of its weapons drawn. It is fighting to the death over concepts that, in most every case, are simply rallying cries for […]
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