Morningside Devotionals

Can life actually be a vignette and not a novel? It always fascinates me to hear the responses of those who claim they don't believe in God when someone says that they will pray for them.  Especially in the midst of tragic moments, momentous events such as births and deaths, and life changing events; the mention of someone who says they will pray for you, simmers the most anti- of anti God types.  Ever notice that?  Sure you have, but was it a vignette or the beginning of a novel? You were expecting, something else?  Do you think God expects something else? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFl1VgNfU8w

Watching this massive movie, " The Kings Speech ," only Click here to movie database served to remind me of so much that I take for granted, which this great man could not.  My wife has always loved the Royal's, and, I've always thought she was silly for carrying on about them.  Now, as has become my custom this last decade, yet another heaping helping of "Crow."  One can only hope it's not an insult to an otherwise noble bird. You on the other hand, shall not get off so easily, as it appears that the words of this King, no not George the VI'th, but the King, Jesus, of Nazareth, shall call you to a duty that is in line with what the King called his noble subjects of England into when resisting the Hitler move to encompass the world in a nightmare of his creation. This great movie of the struggles of one who was very challenged to speak in public, who stammered, is yet another reminder of how powerfully we are set into motion by...

Five minutes, it isn't a long time, it's an elevator ride in an enormous building downtown, it's a brief parking garage ride, it's a transit of the park - five minutes isn't very long at all.  Five minutes can be, however, the longest and most important minutes of your day, if, you spend those five minutes in meditation.  Five minutes can change your life, make your life better, happier, more fulfilled, five minutes.  Five minutes isn't a long time. If you look at your watch or a clock on the wall, choose a time to start, and literally time out five minutes; you'll discover it's longer than you might believe.  Separated time is different, dedicated time is different; the time in length is the same, always will be, set by the atomic clock, a second is a second and minutes have 60 of them, and that's just the way it is.  When you stop your life, for five of them, though, something changes. Meditation sits in the family of concentrat...

The most remarkable thing about the truth of the power of God is that, when God wants to get your attention, God does.  http://www.informedfaith.com/cac/singlesermon/10010

About The Ball Site of Photo Click Here For some reason this year, it seems we're not hearing as much about the New Year's wish or plans for the New Year , or, what are you going to look back on as being really cool and what not to try again. Remember how big that used to be, and here we are about one day away from the big ball in New York , and the Eiffel Tower getting laser nuts in Paris and all over the planet everybody going "whoo hoo," we made it! Right about now you may be wondering that this really doesn't sound like what a devotional is supposed to sound like? Gee whiz, is it possible that, we're going to climb outside the typical- and here we really don't want to use the word boring , because, devotionals, from the past, are hardly that, are they ? But in writing a devotional for the time we're in, do we need to change gears a bit? It's a question that I want to put out there, because some of my online buds, some of whom are ...

Every year we have the friends over for a little party, about six of them, think it is, anywho, it's nice to see how they have changed and how the world has changed, together, every year; it's a nice measuring stick.  What do you use? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTYIAp0GrLA

See this documentary soon... What an incredible story from the documentary "Collapse," that scientists around 1940 or 1950 tried an above ground nuclear test on a Pacific island.  Going back years later, they discovered about 10,000 monkeys on the island, where, everything seemed to have grown back, but, the monkeys were eating the coconuts which had radiation in their shells. So the scientists took ten monkeys and taught them to wash the coconuts in a fresh water stream, cleaning the radiation. As they monitored the monkeys they found after a short period of time that twelve monkeys were washing their coconuts.  Then a few more as time progressed, some months in, 47 were washing them.  After about a year or more, they noticed that nearly a hundred monkeys were washing  their coconuts, then it happened when the 100th monkey washed the coconut the 10,000 began washing theirs!  This is a phenomenon that had been noticed before, but it give...