Tag: faith
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Art as an Act of Faith
Art, I am discovering, is the ultimate act of faith. Do you see this photo of the path through the woods? I cannot see where this path ends. As with Life, I can see only a few steps ahead. In places where the path is straighter, I can see farther, but what’s around that next…
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Stars, Reality, and Perspective—and Loving Again
Photo credit by Aislinn Bailey; used with permission. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising, 2007. This is important for reasons I cannot yet fathom, except that I’m looking for what is real. We’re so sure of what reality is. We gaze at the night sky, at what’s not visible in the glare of harsh…
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You Really Can’t Trust Anyone, Can You?
Photo by monster; creative commons license For months, I’ve noticed how many people around me have trust issues, and I’ve also noticed that these trust issues didn’t just pop up over night. They’ve been there for years, through series of relationships, maybe all the way back to childhood. They’re still there because they’ve never been…
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Allowing the Universe to Take Care of You
Fabulous photo by Niemster, used under the Creative Commons License. Most days, I’m in a fairly blissful state of knowing I’m being “taken care of” by the Universe. This wasn’t always so obvious in the past and many times, I thought I knew better than the Universe (or God or the Gods or whatever term…