JESSIE'S VEGAS

"There is in all of us an apparently infinite, and certainly, ultimate need for a rich, abiding, trustworthy love. This is a love that reaches in and through the self, outward to others, and upward to the highest in the universe. In the ordinary world, even the world of religion, this craving finds extremely rare fulfillment. But a dawning understanding is the key to its creative source and the beginning of its increase and transformation:that man was known and loved profoundly even prior to mortal birth;that love, indeed, drew him and his Eternal Father together in a sphere of perfected light and glory; that he, distinct from all other beings, animate or inanimate, in the universe, is chosen and begotten spirit of the Divine...there is a flame that is rekindled when a prophet testifies in the 20th century as Jesus Christ did in the first, "God is our Father" AN intuitive flash dissipates theological and psychological speculation. A luminous nostalgia arises in us. A...

I rushed out the door to work the other night and grabbed a vest.  It was my 2002 IHC vest from our Idaho/Utah days. I had forgotten that there was an emblem of the paralympics on the lapel until a clerk at the checkout stand brought it up to me when I was buying milk on my way to work. "Did you see the paralympics?" he said. "That must have been something else!" "You, know, at the time the paralympics were the only sporting events we could get tickets to at the last minute.  I was surprised that the hockey game I saw was the most inspiring sporting event I witnessed in my lifetime.  One guy only had an upper half, his lower half was completely gone.  When he came out on the ice in his sled, the crowd roared! I do not know if I have ever heard a more enthusiastic crowd in my life." "I wish I could have seen that!" the guy behind the counter said. As I got into my car, I was suddenly grateful to have had that moment brought back to my mind.  S...

It is early or late or in between.  Anyway,  the whole house seems to be asleep and I am not.  It happened and now everything can begin. Syd has made tremendous progress!  However,  a letter came from the school last week that I have been dreading.  I knew it was coming because they told me. HOW come things seem so much more final or serious or, I don't know, REAL,  in print? When the eighteen candles were blown out she was SO excited to begin her journey to adulthood!  I have yet to see such excitement in a young adult to begin this transitory step. It is I who is not ready.  It is I who cringes when hearing how anothers rights have been violated, it is I who cherishes personal freedom and liberty, it is I who does not want to tell her she is incapable of caring for herself.  Most people do NOT realize when this has happened to themselves.  I have seen similar situations with children of aged parents in the ER.  The parent is ...