Author Archives: Spirit Moments

Triumphant Defeat

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Spirit Moments

Everyone wants to be happy and useful. But life is often punctuated by crisis and problems that distract people from being happy and useful. The great memorial Christ left us is not about being happy and useful but about how … Continue reading →

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Pentecost

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Spirit Moments

Come, Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial home      Shed a ray of light divine! Come, Father of the poor! Come, source of all our store!      Come, within our bosoms shine. You, of comforters the best; … Continue reading →

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What Compels Me

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Spirit Moments

A friend commented to me yesterday, “I am amused by your daily scriptural postings. What do you hope to accomplish?” I could see where she was coming from. Given how things are going these days when lies are peddled as … Continue reading →

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The NBA Finals and Mt. Pinatubo

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Spirit Moments

It is the MBA finals and I am again rooting for the Warriors. I am emotionally invested in this team and I get kinda down and low whenever they lose. We lived in the Bay area for years and saw … Continue reading →

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Nature Alive Means People Alive

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Spirit Moments

Life is so powerful it will not be denied. Life will always find a way to express itself. Living in the Santa Clara/Silicon Valley has made me even more appreciative of this fact. San Jose sits at the confluence of … Continue reading →

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Questions

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Spirit Moments

We shall never cease from questioning and the end of all our questions is to come up with ever more questions and never come to any real answers. Real life questions are never answerable by a simple ‘yes’ or a … Continue reading →

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The Fool on the Hill

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Spirit Moments

I love the Beatles. They somehow wrote the soundtrack of my growing up years. And even today, their songs still resonate strongly with me. They were the children of our age: the sexual revolution, the shedding off of long-held traditions, … Continue reading →

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Roots

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Spirit Moments

For most of my adult life, I have lived in cosmopolitan and urbanized areas in several places in the world. Yet I can still feel my peasant roots. My forebears were tillers, not owners, of the soil. During the off-season, … Continue reading →

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Created For Greatness, Born For Eternity

Posted on June 2, 2019 by Spirit Moments

I come from the same spark that has spawned all the light and goodness there in this world. I carry in me this spark of the divine and infinite that suffuses the whole universe. And yet, I sometimes act as … Continue reading →

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What A Fool Believes?

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Spirit Moments

Conventional wisdom is based on common sense and what is rational, as in, “What goes up must come down.” or as in the laws of Physics, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” or as in human relationships, … Continue reading →

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