Today, I need to be slapped by God. Slapped awake. ‘Snap out of it,’ God will say as his hard hand hits my face.
I find it highly ironic that Jesus, a man of poverty without a home or possesions should have become the primary religious icon of the grandest consumer culture in the world-America.
It is good to ‘chop wood, carry water.’ But remember that you will be asked to chop the wood and carry the water of others from time to time.
Be suspicious of those who are certain.
In spite of the stars, in spite of the moon, in spite of the sun rising and the sun setting, we still kill each other.
The question is, should I free the pretty butterfly caught in the web or let it be eaten by the spider?
The question is, should I free the pretty butterfly caught in the web or let it be eaten by the spider?
I think God goofed. He obviously created the world before he was ready.
God, I’m not asking for a burning bush. A burning blade of grass would do. Ellis, wake up, wake up the grass is burning all around you.
We always seem to end up worshipping the messenger instead of heeding the message: Love.
There is a story about a nun who was so light hearted that she was often found floating above the tree tops of her monastery. The other nuns would sometimes have to tie her down just to keep her from floating away.
If there ever was a perfect plan for my life, and I believe there may have been way back when, I did not follow it. I am probably on plan ‘double Z’ by now.
I look at the glittering snow and it is like looking at the glittering stars in the night sky. There is Eternity on the winter ground.
The trick is to change from being the one who is comforted into the one who comforts.
All of us are here to be angels for each other.
God distracts us with flowers.
In a drought instead of praying for rain we should be saying ‘Thy will be done. Thank you for the sun.’
We are here to ease the life of others.
First seek inside you for the Kingdom of Love and, when you find it, all other things will be given to you.
It is the wind and the rain, the rock and the tree. These will feed me.
Always try the impossible first.
What you feed, grows. Feed love.
I’d rather buy a telescope than a davenport.
