Silencing My Tell-Tale Heart

Silencing My Tell-Tale Heart

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.” – Bishop Robert South The American writer Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps best...
Freedom To Forget The Past

Freedom To Forget The Past

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.” ~ J. G. Ballard ~ Mark Twain once remarked, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no...
So, You’ve Been Offended?

So, You’ve Been Offended?

If all the printers in all the world were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” – Benjamin Franklin – Florida in July is…, well… it is hot.   Okay, at times it is...
One Nation Under God?

One Nation Under God?

I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.”   – Benjamin Rush – (at the signing of the...
Why all the HATRED?

Why all the HATRED?

Throughout your lifetime, people will make you mad,   They will disrespect you and treat you badly. Let God deal with the things people do, because in the end, hate in your heart will consume you.” – Will Smith In the 1983 Sci-Fi film Star Wars Episode VI:...