Blog - Understanding Reality

Conscious Awareness

Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 09, 2024 • 12 Comments

To everything turn, turn, turn, There is a season turn, turn, turn, And a time to every purpose under Heaven. A time to be born, a time to die. A time to plant, a time to reap. A time to kill, a time to heal. A time to laugh, a time to weep. To everything... Read More

The New Explanation

Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 02, 2024 • 12 Comments

If you’re going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. If you’re going to San Francisco, You’re gonna meet some gentle people there. For those who come to San Francisco, Summertime will be a love-in there. In the streets of San Francisco, Gentle people with flowers in their hair. All... Read More

God’s Hand

Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 20, 2024 • 49 Comments

… You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord, Who abide in His shadow for life, Say to the Lord, “My refuge, my rock in whom I trust!” … And He will raise you up on eagles’ wings, Bear you on the breath of dawn, Make you to shine like the sun! And hold... Read More

Intelligence?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 29, 2024 • 4 Comments

All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, ‘Twas God that made them all. Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings. He made their glowing colors, and made their tiny wings.  The purple-headed mountains, the rivers running by. The sunset, and the morning that brightens... Read More

Science’s Despair

Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 22, 2024 • 8 Comments

It seems we’ve stood and talked like this before. We looked at each other in the same way then, but I can’t remember where or when. The clothes you’re wearing are the clothes you wore. The smile you are smiling you were smiling then, But I can’t remember where or when. Some things that happen... Read More

Love Above All

Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 15, 2024 • 8 Comments

O Lord my God, When I, in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art, How great Thou art. Then sings my soul, My Saviour... Read More

Humankind Discovers God

Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 08, 2024 • 25 Comments

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation! Oh my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation! All ye who hear, Now to His temple draw near; Sing now in glad adoration! Praise to the Lord, who o’er all things so wondrously reigneth, Who, as on wings of an eagle, uplifteth, sustaineth.... Read More

Living in History

Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 11, 2024 • 18 Comments

The road is long, with many a winding turn That leads us to who knows where, who knows where. But I’m strong! Strong enough to carry him. He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.  So on we go. His welfare is of my concern. No burden is he to bear. We’ll get there. For I know... Read More

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 27, 2024 • 18 Comments

Raindrops are falling on my head. And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, Nothing seems to fit. Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling. … So I just did me some talking to the sun, And I told him I didn’t like the way he got... Read More

Non-material Consciousness

Posted by Roberta Grimes • April 20, 2024 • 8 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! – Jerry N. Capehart (1928-1998), from “Turn Around, Look at Me” (1968) How... Read More