I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.

... where there was hunger there would also be bread.

Lord, what are you trying to teach me?