Morningside Devotionals

How do you see God?  Your view of God really is the determining factor in whether you have anything to say about God or not.  Do you live as if though God is real?  Do you love and forgive, donate, sacrifice in behalf of those who have less than you, as if though God exists?  Do you uplift, pray for, support, encourage and treat your fellow God believers, as if though, God exists?  If you don't, do you believe God exists? Do you believe- really believe, God is real?  If God is real, and you don't live as if though you believe God is real, then do you really believe God is real?  Simple isn't it- but this revolutionary idea is still kicking the tales of those who want to lie about what they really feel - who want to hide behind false statements, false actions, guarded notions of inner hatreds which they refuse to turn loose of, and the worst of all possible things that can happen to a person who believes they believe in God- live as if though God i...

Hatred is an interesting emotional experience because it leaves you feeling like you put something into the fracas, but what came out didn't add up, it's an odd feeling of having done less than you needed.  My first encounter with hatred was early in life, we were poor, my father either didn't care about us, or, just simply couldn't handle being a "dad," so he left us when I was two, or so when my folks were alive, they would tell me.  What happened then is, we became poor, mom worked at jobs that didn't pay much, the family tried to make ends meet, but work hard as they could, they never quite seemed to catch a break above even, and mom and I always were the poor end of the family gathered, and they hated us for being poor.  My friends in school didn't hate me for being poor, but their parents did- odd thing about parents of well off kids, they don't trust poor kids, you know "well why aren't they better off if they're honest hard wor...