Blog - Understanding Reality

Something from Nothing?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 25, 2023 • 12 Comments

It seems we 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 happened... Read More

What is Spiritual Growth?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 18, 2023 • 27 Comments

I am weak but Thou art strong. Jesus, keep me from all wrong! I’ll be satisfied as long As I walk, let me walk close to Thee. Just a closer walk with Thee. Grant it, Jesus, is my plea! Daily walking close to Thee. Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. – Traditional, from... Read More

Born Again

Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 04, 2023 • 18 Comments

I used to think that I could not go on. And life was nothing but an awful song. But now I know the meaning of true love! I’m leaning on the everlasting arms. If I can see it, then I can do it! If I just believe it, there’s nothing to it! I believe I... Read More

Jesus and Wealth

Posted by Roberta Grimes • October 28, 2023 • 34 Comments

The best things in life are free. But you can give them to the birds and bees! I want money. That’s what I want. That’s what I want. Your love is such a thrill. But your love won’t pay my bills! I want money. That’s what I want! That’s what I want! Money don’t get... Read More

The Lord’s Gift

Posted by Roberta Grimes • October 21, 2023 • 33 Comments

When the twilight is gone, and no songbirds are singing. When the twilight is gone, you come into my heart. And here in my heart you will stay while I pray. My prayer is to linger with you, At the end of the day, in a dream that’s divine. My prayer is a rapture in... Read More

Free Thinking

Posted by Roberta Grimes • October 14, 2023 • 16 Comments

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and... Read More

Trust

Posted by Roberta Grimes • October 07, 2023 • 34 Comments

Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong; they are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so. Jesus loves me! This I know, as He loved so long ago, Taking children... Read More

The Hard Problem

Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 30, 2023 • 28 Comments

Spring was never waiting for us, dear. It ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance, Between the parted pages, and were pressed in love’s hot, fevered iron, Like a striped pair of pants. MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark, all the sweet, green icing flowing down. Someone left the cake out... Read More

We Create Our Own Suffering

Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 23, 2023 • 23 Comments

What kind of fool am I, who never fell in love? It seems that I’m the only one that I have been thinking of. What kind of mind is this? An empty shell, A lonely cell in which an empty heart must dwell. What kind of clown am I? What do I know of life?... Read More

Adding Things Up

Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 02, 2023 • 12 Comments

Praise the Lord, my soul. Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty. The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and... Read More