From Where I Come, I Could Never Go Back

From above, an angel crashed on top of an old rundown shack mewed up in unkempt pasture and wild weeds. It lay to the side of a cornfield, among a couple of trees and near a dirt road. It was close to nightfall, and it seemed he fell in the middle of a rural farming … Continue reading From Where I Come, I Could Never Go Back

Beauty

There is this saying that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” which many believe to be true. You probably have heard it already and without giving it much thought made use of it yourself. If you thoughtfully reflect on it, at its core, the expression underscores that what a person finds attractive or … Continue reading Beauty

Truest Nature

Many great things have been accomplished by your generation and it will probably exceed ours in terms of economic well-being, education, and sustainability. But you are also going to find yourself immersed in a society in which the artifacts of its creativity lack moral depth. If you pay attention you will also come to realize just how far relativism (the thesis that all points of view are equally valid and no absolute truth) has permeated everything in our society and blinding us of our nature and threatening the very existence of our humanity.

What does it mean to believe in the existence of God?

It’s an unusual question to ask oneself, especially when people tend to not ask themselves deep questions about things they take for granted. I can rationally assume the existence of God is true, without questioning what it means to believe in such a truth. But if we were to make an intellectual effort - unbiased … Continue reading What does it mean to believe in the existence of God?

Wagon

Horror isolates events by making them incomparable, incomparably unique, uniquely unique (Ricoeur), but we can extract from them certain analogical experiences on to other cruel situations, where people also find themselves caged in a wagon, barely surviving the excruciating reality that surrounds them.