Blog - Understanding Reality

Faith vs. Knowing

Posted by Roberta Grimes • August 06, 2022 • 33 Comments

I wonder as I wander out under the sky, How Jesus the Savior did come for to die. For poor on’ry people like you and like I… I wonder as I wander out under the sky. When Mary birthed Jesus ’twas in a cow’s stall, With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all. But... Read More

Seeking Sense in Hindsight

Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 02, 2022 • 34 Comments

Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me. Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be. With God as our father, brothers all are we. Let me walk with my brother in perfect harmony. – Jill Jackson Miller (1913-1995) & Sy Miller (1908-1971), from “Let There... Read More

Seek Reality Online

Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 25, 2022 • 33 Comments

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. – ACIM, Preface.1:1-3 Seek Reality Online goes live officially on Monday, June 27th. But if you go to seekreality.com before that date, you will find that we are hosting a friends-and-family open house this weekend. Thank you for being its final... Read More

Seeking Reality

Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 28, 2022 • 32 Comments

To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go. To right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, To try when your arms are too weary to reach the unreachable star, This is my quest, to follow that... Read More

Demons

Posted by Roberta Grimes • May 21, 2022 • 53 Comments

From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! ~ traditional Scottish prayer This is the first post that I ever have written about something that I never have deliberately studied, I have no interest in whatsoever, and frankly I want nothing to do with.... Read More

Mathematics

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 12, 2022 • 40 Comments

Morning has broken like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing, praise for the morning, Praise for them springing fresh from the world. Sweet the rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven, Like the first dewfall on the first grass. Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, Sprung... Read More

The Valley

Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 05, 2022 • 43 Comments

I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself, What a wonderful world! I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day. The dark sacred night. And I think to myself, What a wonderful world! – Bob Thiele (1922-1996)... Read More

Magic Bullet

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 22, 2022 • 18 Comments

Now I’ve been happy lately, Thinkin’ about the good things to come. And I believe it could be. Something good has begun. Oh, I’ve been smiling lately, Dreaming about the world as one! And I believe it could be. Someday it’s going to come. ‘Cause I’m on the edge of darkness. There ride the Peace... Read More

Why?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 15, 2022 • 26 Comments

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive,... Read More

Pollution?

Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 01, 2022 • 64 Comments

The road is long, with many a winding turn That leads us to who knows where, who knows when. But I’m strong, strong enough to carry him. He ain’t heavy. He’s my brother. – Bob Russell (1914-1970) & Bobby Scott, from “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” (1969) There are many people who email me... Read More