This week’s OEP is a prayer given to open the U.S. House of Representatives on September 10, 2015. I hope it will have meaning for you tod...

This week’s OEP is a prayer given to open the U.S. House of Representatives on March October 7, 2011. I hope it will have meaning for you to...

  This week’s OEP is a prayer given to open the U.S. House of Representatives on March 18, 2013. I hope it will have meaning for you tod...

I'm taking a little break from One Eternal Presence for a few weeks. In the mean time,  each week I'm sharing one of the fourteen Op...

It's that time of year again! Time for me to take a little break from One Eternal Presence.  In the past, during this time I've po...

“You are the light of the world...you are the salt of the earth.” ~ Jesus “The love you take is equal to the love you make.”     ~ Le...

A couple of days ago here in Estes Park, Colorado as I hiked with Peg and dear friends a slight breeze led my attention to a small Aspen tre...

"We sure could use some rain." "When will it ever stop raining." We have all felt and expressed the above in some f...

Dear Andrew, We welcomed you into this world less than a week ago. You surprised us and came early. But that’s ok because you’ll discov...

Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me…If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me...

On Father's Day this past Sunday I remembered something that Peg and I experienced on Father's Day back in 1976. My reflections o...

"Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believ...

“Words make worlds” — because it’s true...language in poetry is magical language. It creates a world. It summons a world into being. The e...

According to an online dictionary the word "in" has at least eleven different meanings and functions, and "out" has at...

Do you remember TV test patterns ?  Recently in a conversation with some peers we were reminiscing on those odd looking, but familiar, manda...

Propaganda: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person; ideas...

Sorry about the late OEP this week. I've been kinda busy because my grandson, Oliver, and his Mommy and Momma are visiting us this week....

"We’re taught that poetry is some kind of elevated language about an elevated life we don’t live. It’s ordinary language abou...

It's Wednesday of Holy Week. According to the biblical Gospel stories, this is the week Jesus finally went to Jerusalem, the place where...

Thirty-five thousand years ago a human migration began in East Asia and for thousands of years made their way across frozen oceans to what ...

In our neighborhood brewery recently, the room was filled with sound: conversations, laughter, and not too loud jukebox music. The guy bes...

What has been is what will be,    and what has been done is what will be done;    there is nothing new under the sun.   ~ Ecclesiastes 1:9...

Today at 5:58 p.m. is the vernal equinox. Below is a slightly adapted reflection from 2013. Spring Threshold Do not remember the former...

Many people in religious and spiritual circles think and believe that we are living in a time of reformation similar to time in Western hist...

Ten years ago I ran across a concept called a "cosmic walk" that had been conceived by a progressive, evolutionary minded nun, Sis...

I love music.  Even though I don't identify as a musician,  I enjoy all kinds of music, even music that many don't recognize as musi...

The amazing complexity of the most simple things reveals the miracle of life. As I write this blog, impulses in my brain fueled by chemicals...

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will...

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. ~ an ancient Buddhist teaching This morning an imaginative meme was shared by a friend...

Moon: Super, Blood, Full, Fingernail, Moonshine, New, Blue, Man in, Man on, Dark side of, Crying for, Howling at.....

They asked him, ‘Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?’ And he said, ‘Beware that you are ...

It seems appropriate today to share the iconic Robert Frost poem that gets at the truth of current craziness. Unfortunately the most often q...