Monthly Archives: December 2015
God opens up the door to His study and steps out onto the balcony overlooking His Garden. He hears the chirping of birds, the rustling of squirrels, and the babbling of brooks, but something is missing. Despite perfect ecological acoustics and natural symphonic majesty He senses a lyrical emptiness. The spirituals once sung by His Garden tenders are but a faint…..
God created the earth to reflect His glory and what better way to accomplish this Holy task than to fill it with creatures bearing His image. The life that was the light of men would fill the planet and illuminate the universe with His divine radiance. Sadly, a powerful “sinstorm” caused the Tree of Good and Evil to fall and…..
Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Parable of the Madman, declared that God was dead. While ultimately thinking that God’s demise was a good thing, Nietzsche understood that the throne could not be left vacant and mankind would have to step up and assume all of God’s divine responsibilities. This raises a very important question; whom would you elect to that…..
I will never forget a meeting I had with a forty-year-old, developmentally delayed woman whose pregnancy was complicated by the diagnosis of a potentially fatal fetal abnormality. The purpose of our meeting was to discuss the expected hospital course, potential complications, and risk of death or impairment for her baby. Her developmental disability was the result of physical abuse she…..
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