Blog - Understanding Reality

What About Evil?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 16, 2024 • 16 Comments

He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea. He alone decides who writes a symphony. He lights evr’y star that makes the darkness bright! He keeps watch all through each long and lonely night! He still finds the time to hear a child’s first prayer. Saint or sinner calls and always finds Him... Read More

Accepting Design

Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 09, 2024 • 4 Comments

Two and two are four, Four and four are eight, Eight and eight are sixteen, Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two… Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds, You and your arithmetic, you’ll likely go far. Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds, Seems to me you’d stop and see how lovely they are.  Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds, With... Read More

Life in the Illusion

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 17, 2024 • 18 Comments

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”  He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood,... Read More

Materialist Science Leaves the Rails

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 03, 2024 • 13 Comments

The Cruel War is raging, Johnny has to fight, I want to be with him from morning to night. I want to be with him, it grieves my heart so, Won’t you let me go with you? No, my love, no.  Tomorrow is Sunday, Monday is the day That your Captain will call you and... Read More

Happiness

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 27, 2024 • 28 Comments

What’s it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live? What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? Are we meant to take more than we give? Or are we meant to be kind? And if only fools are kind, Alfie, Then I guess it is wise to be cruel.... Read More

Finding God

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 20, 2024 • 14 Comments

He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea. He alone decides who writes a symphony. He lights evr’y star that makes the darkness bright! He keeps watch all through each long and lonely night! He still finds the time to hear a child’s first prayer. Saint or sinner calls and always finds Him... Read More

Nothingism

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 13, 2024 • 16 Comments

Whether I’m right, or whether I’m wrong, Whether I find a place in this world or never belong, I gotta be me! I’ve gotta be me! What else can I be but what I am? I want to live, not merely survive. And I won’t give up this dream of life that keeps me alive!... Read More

Better Understanding Jesus

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 06, 2024 • 28 Comments

There is Someone walking behind you. Turn around. Look at Me. There is Someone watching your footsteps. Turn around. Look at Me. There is Someone who really needs you. Here’s My heart in My hand! Turn around. Look at Me. Understand, understand. And there’s Someone to stand beside you. Turn around, look at Me. And... Read More

Our Very Personal God

Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 16, 2023 • 37 Comments

I come to the garden alone, While the dew is still on the roses, And the voice I hear falling on my ear The Son of God discloses. And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own; And the joy we share as we tarry there,... Read More

Let There be Life!

Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 02, 2023 • 38 Comments

To us and our good fortune! Be happy, be healthy, long life! And if our good fortune never comes, here’s to whatever comes. Drink l’chai-im, to life! To life, l’chai-im! L’chai-im, l’chai-im, to life! Here’s to our prosperity, our good health and happiness, and most important … To life, to life, l’chai-im! L’chai-im, l’chai-im, to... Read More