The Sin Of The Desert Is Knowing

Forgiveness Does Not Require Us To Close Our Eyes But Rather To Truly Open Them.

I've Wondered Why The Famous Congregate With Each Other. Perhaps It's To Assure Each Other That They Really Are As Important As They Think They Are.

I Find Myself Seeking Out The Commonalities Of Our Different Religious Experiences With Hopes Of Encouraging, Through My Writings, The Most Hopeful, Loving And Redemptive Qualities In All Of Us.

I See People Getting So Caught Up In Celebrating Diversity That They Are Neglecting Their Commonality. I Don't See This As A Good Thing. The Chinese Culture Has Survived For More Than Five Thousand Years In Part Because The Chinese Have Embraced The Same Language And Culture. I Hope I Am Wrong About This, And That The Flame Is Still On Beneath The Great American Melting Pot. Americans Need Each Other, And A House Divided, No Matter The Color Of Its Occupants, Is Still Divided. And Divided We All Fall.

Like All Living Things, Love, Too, Struggles Against Hardship, And In The Process Sheds Its Fatuous Skin To Expose One Composed Of More Than Just A Storm Of Emotion-one Of Loyalty And Divine Friendship. And Though It May Be Temporarily Blinded By Adversity, It Never Gives In Or Up, Holding Tight To Lofty Ideals That Transcend This Earth And Time- While Its Counterfeit Simply Concludes It Was Mistaken And Quickly Runs Off To Find The Next Real Thing.