You haunt my days and dreams.

Choose to view life through Gods eyes. This will not be easy because it doesnt come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal divine perspective.

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.

Lord help us root our feet to the earthAnd our eyes to the roadAnd always remember the fallen angelsWho attempting to soarWere seared instead by the sun and wings meltingCame crashing back to the sea.Lord help root my eyes to the earthAnd stay my eyes to the roadSo I may never stumble.-Psalm 24 From Prayer and Study The Book of Shhh

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

Religio as we know harks back to a word re-ligio meaning bond and that is precisely what the anarch rejects. He does not go in for Moses with the Ten Commandments or indeed for any prophets. Nor does he wish to hear anything concerning gods or rumors about them except as a historian - or unless they appear to him. That is when the conflicts begin.So if I state in order to pray I am following an innate instinct that is no weaker than the sexual drive - in fact even stronger. The two are alike insofar as foul things can happen when they are suppressed.

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a persons theology was the effect it has on ones prayers.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance and you will see what will happen.

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit when they do not think well of us then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. Therefore a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. Im sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of that pagan goddess but the fact remains that shes your mortal bride in the Year of Our Lord 1888- and shes Catholic so pray for her damn it I dont care how confusing it is. And pray for us to anyone. If the dead are about to flood Athens divine goodwill couldnt hurt. Your prayers can be in Hindu if you like. Now go home.