Tag: doubt
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March 22, 2007 04:07 PM EDT --
I desperately want to believe in God. I am looking for a reason to have faith in Him. But I have to admit that my faith has begun to waiver. The older I get and the more I see in the . . . more
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August 20, 2008 09:22 AM EDT --
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
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June 08, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
I recently signed up for a free, six-week online fiction writing class. After a year of 'stalling' (or was it two?), I needed yet another kick-in-the-pants to motivate myself to sit down and write. . . . more
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May 07, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
I had been pressed with doubt for some time. When I was in prayer or reading my Bible, darting thoughts and fears pecked at my mind. It was taking the joy out of my relationship with the Lord. . . . more
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January 14, 2008 12:43 PM EST --
Greetings reader!
I am checking out "The Intention Experiment"
I urge all to look into "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain"
We all have doubts to conquer. A professional . . . more
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August 26, 2007 03:20 AM EDT --
I must apologize for the sing-songy rhyming--not usually my thing --it just sort of happened . . .
This is not a plotted course
Of summer sunrise, sand shores;
Our vessel's . . . more
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December 18, 2007 06:57 AM EST --
(a sonnet)
On the eve of our falling through adamant lies,
coiled the serpentine twistings 'round godless pursuit;
firmly gripping, then ripping and seizing the prize,
hand to . . . more
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April 01, 2008 11:27 PM EDT --
How I envy those who worship God and attend mass with seeming impunity. I fear the homily is always directed at me, confirmed by my involuntary blushing. As there is no blood spurting from their . . . more
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October 14, 2006 05:24 AM EDT --
She gazes loathsome at the girl in the mirror
She glares at her distorted reflection
She blankets her wounded eyes in prickly wool
She suffocates on images of misshaped perception
The choking . . . more
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August 07, 2007 07:46 AM EDT --
The Truth
I must not be reluctant to tell you the truth.
You may want to hear what I have to say.
For I have much hope to offer to you.
I must tell you to not doubt yourself.
You have nothing to . . . more
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August 29, 2007 12:03 AM EDT --
Giving more of me in anonymity
Feeling alien in my home
Finding understanding with strangers,
Unseen, Unknown,
Still, there is rightness . . .
That my weakness remain disguised;
My strength . . . more
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June 23, 2008 02:26 PM EDT --
Questions asked but none answered.
You say you know what you need?
But you talk with uncertainty of what is to come.
Your voice shows you are frightened and alone.
Instead, your voice . . . more
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May 08, 2008 02:13 AM EDT --
I am in a very strange mood and I feel like ranting about stuff I have always seen, heard, or experienced in being a Christian. Most of you may not be interested, but I'm a-gonna go ahead and write . . . more
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May 26, 2006 09:05 PM EDT --
i just want to tell you i love you.
whatever, what may you decide
as we arrive at a "y" on our journey
and find that the time has arrived
one door must open, one heart must slide
. . . more
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September 13, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Bertrand Russell
I'm an agnostic. This doesn't mean I believe a god . . . more
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October 07, 2006 04:50 AM EDT --
White-walled bathroom - splashes of red on the wall, in the hand basin, in the bath, on the towels.
My eyes, with burgeoning doubt stare back at me from the droplet decorated mirror. . . . more
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March 01, 2007 04:21 PM EST --
My heart lies
twisted
gnarled
beyond the reach of your grace?
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January 01, 2008 07:58 PM EST --
Some people like to think of me as a foul mouthed, uneducated neophyte with delusions of grandeur, built upon psychotic notions of being a deity, infallible and unintelligable to mere mortals suffering . . . more
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February 10, 2007 11:49 PM EST --
Whenever I'm asked, "Why?" I say so often, "I don't know." I might elaborate, "I'm a researcher." If they persist I say, "If you're not confused, . . . more
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June 01, 2008 04:08 AM EDT --
It seemed a shame that
Her last view of New
York was the one she
Took seconds before
She leapt; this was no
Kierkegaardian
Leap of faith; faith had
Eroded after years
Of self-doubt and . . . more
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