I can’t say that I know what it means to believe in God.  I don’t pray daily, but when I do pray, I’m amazed at the outcome.  Not sure that I feel compassion in the way that Jesus Christ did or does, but his words in action ring true to what I feel is most loving and living within myself.

As a child, stories in the Old Testament tested my imagination, while stories in the New Testament made me wonder.

I believe that miracles described in the Bible are not just allegories.  Our ancestors were scientific observers to a natural world that few of us living today have ever experienced.  Words that we use to communicate are only harbors for reflections on the miracles that breathe life into an eternal ocean of forgiveness and continuity at every moment we are changing.  Action is the creative source that feeds.  Whenever we move, the movement from within ourselves will move out and return back to us again and again.  It’s a basic law of nature.

For personal meditation and reflection, the Bible scripture that brings me back to center is Matthew 7: 1-4

Matthew 7:1  Judge not, that you be not judged.  Matthew 7:2  For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged, and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.  Matthew 7:3 And why behold the mote that is in your brother’s eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?  Matthew 7:4  How will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye and, behold, a beam is in my own eye?