Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) What book, you ask? The book within. What are you talking about? I have no book within. We all do–every one of us. I don’t understand. Let me put it this way: everyone alive has a story. It’s called their life story. Every life story is different because no two […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) The phrase “a leap of faith” originated in the mid-1800s but gained popularity in the 1900s. It comes from the Latin word “saltus fidei,” which Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard coined. He used it as a metaphor for religious belief in God. As it applies to this issue of your taking […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) If you continue to doubt that you can author that book burning within you, you might start to consider that the noise in your mind is just two opposing voices clamoring for your attention. As you have seen from some of the previous posts in this series, one voice is […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) The orange cube in the picture is a stumbling block. Because it is cube-shaped, it has six sides. Imagine that each side has a different word or phrase imprinted on it. Most are predicated on something I wrote about previously, fear. Here are some of the phrases that were on […]
I wrote the book above because I am convinced that most of us tend to put God in a box. I have shared about the box I often put Him in. That box is labeled “Old Testament.” Thus, the picture that conjured up in my mind was that He was cold, distant, and unapproachable. The […]
Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) There’s an old saying, “Everyone has a book in them.” Do you think that’s true? Or do you say “yes, but”? The reality is, and no offense is meant, that everyone has a book in them unless they are brain dead. That’s because every single person has a life story–everybody. […]