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Anybody who has made it to adulthood has had some experience of the fundamental precariousness of life.  Some have had much more than others.  It is as if you were standing in a forest and heard the wind whistle behind you and looking, you saw that you were on the edge of a steep cliff….

“There’s a big possum in the courtyard,” Annie said. I came to the door and looked out.  Sure enough, the marsupial denizen was poddling out the gate toward the street.  She wasn’t that big, but she was indeed a possum.  Fast for a possum is slow for almost anything else, so with a little spurt…

The search for the treasures of of heaven is a daily one. That is a part of its character. There is nothing static about it. It is a daily commitment, a daily exploration, a daily mystery, a daily prayer. “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where…

…and he is like Jesus. Neither statement is to be taken for granted, and both are very significant for life in this generation. The knowledge/sense/preference/belief that there is a God is a choice.  That is to say, there is no absolutely compelling evidence in the same way that you could say, for example, “There is…