That Which We Call Time...

That which we call TIME connotes something measured or definite, not least as it relates to our earthly habitat.

TIME is an intangible, a product of reason leaving an impression-on-the-mind. Time does not stand alone, neither still, but is conjoined to that which we call PLACE.

Time and place being one, we determine time by way of solar observation relative to our place.

Time is a multicoloured beast: At one time given little or no value and thus wasted.  At another it is treated as a commodity, something of value to be traded.  And, not least, it is ofttimes used to advance our knowledge and, in contemplation, to enrich the soul.

It is well we recognize sooner than later in life that time, for each of us, if FINITE.  No less is it desirable that we early on become cognizant of the fact time is ours alone to do with what we will. 

Are we, through indolence, to become a wastrel?

Or, are we to apply ourself to study, making the most of our time, in order that we may both enrich our own life and that of others? 

Whatever the course, life becomes that which we will it to be.

Garry Kilbourn
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FAITH IN GOD...We speak of having FAITH in God.  And, every now and then, we are saddened to learn of people who have lost-their-faith.

Is yours a God who, as a result of your earthly behaviour judges that you be either saved or condemned to eternal hell-fire?  Or is yours a disinterested and ever-loving God?

Is faith in God a coat of many colours, designed to fit each of us in his or her own way?

When all is said and done, no matter the God we believe in or how or why our faith is engendered, by definition common to all, faith in God is a divine sense of KNOWING that God is within and everywhere around us.

Is it possible that our capacity to lose faith has everything to do with how we view God, as opposed to that ill which may have befallen us in the moment?  To the extent this can at all be discerned, we leave it to those such troubled: these, our fellow-man.

It is our belief that faith in god TRANSCENDS the workings of the mind.  Such faith wells up from within, a product of the SOUL.  It is one that assures us of our spiritual grounding, at once allowing us to walk in the way of Jesus.  It is a life-long JOURNEY, one from which, with God's GRACE, there is no exit-path: an invincible faith in a disinterested and ever-loving God.

To understand the mystery of faith, writes Mark Richard, you cannot be told it; YOU MUST EXPERIENCE IT YOURSELF.  House of Prayer

G.D. Kilbourn
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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret...

Now that I am fifty I read them openly.  When I became a man I put away childish things including the fear of childishness.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
British author

GOD Speaking To Us...

GOD Speaking to us...The SOUL is our divine essence, itself the manifestation of GOD WITHIN.  Even though this assertion is not amenable to absolute proof, mankind from time immemorial has known it to be so.  FAITH alone gives us this assurance.

It is trite to say we are all familiar with our own body.  But what do we know of our soul?  To be sure, the soul is not a topic of everyday discussion, although we acknowledge its religious connotation.  That the soul is not, and has never been, a matter of inquiry and ongoing study serves only to confirm mankind's addiction to secular materialism.

Paying only lip service to the soul while ignoring its role in our overall well-being is to deprive ourselves of the fullness of life.

How, then, does the soul interact with the brain, that which gives rise to the oft-troubled mind?  This is not an idle question, the answer to which means our very salvation.

REASON and INTUITION suggest that the interaction of the soul with the brain is a physiological phenomenon, something very real and tangible.  Proper exercise of the will (i.e., positive thinking) in turn excites healing waves of electric and chemical forces in the brain and throughout the body.  With the mind thus quieted the ELUSIVE SOUL is enabled to play its divinely preordained role--that of restoring and reinvigorating our own innate goodness.

G.D. Kilbourn
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