Saturday, August 19, 2006

CAN I GET A WITNESS?

"Everyone turns to someone at some point in their lives: a brother, a father, a god, and asks: why am I here? for what purpose have I been created?"
~ Spock, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture

"They say the owl was the baker's daughter. M'Lord, we know what we are, but not what we may be!" ~ Ophelia to the King of Denmark, Hamlet

"Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit."
~ King Solomon, from the book of Ecclesiastes 2: 17

The following is my own personal testimony:

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Another Smoke Signal: QUESTIONS

We all know about questions; we ask them because we lack information, we seek counsel, we want to hear the sort of answers that will reassure us, comfort us, strengthen our security, and for a host of other reasons.
We ask questions because answers don't come readily in life and all too often it seems the universe gives them up grudgingly. 
There are some who have grown so tired of asking questions, for want of significant and fulfilling answers, that they boldly declare that "there are no answers!"