god beams, and my little piece of heaven.....


"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
~Abraham Lincoln

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail mind."
~Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
~Albert Einstein

"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
~Carl Sanberg

"Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force."
~Flavius Josephus

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."
~George Burns

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
~Sir Richard Francis Burton

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone *tells you to* is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself."
~Sophy Burnham

"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
~Thomas Jefferson

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependant on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not the lesser, but a greater thing."
~D.H. Lawrence

"Everyone likes to go their own way-- to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
~Jane Austen

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
~Oscar Wilde

"To thine own self be true."
~Henry David Thoreau

"Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you concieve him to be; and whatever your labor and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul." ~ found in St. Paul's Church (Baltimore) in 1692

I had the opportunity to stop for a minute today, and just gaze out the window. Having a free minute is golden, and I try to sneak in as many as I can in each day.... it has become instrumental in keeping me sane.

This afternoon I saw a plethra of birds, different sizes, colors, and breeds, pecking at the ground and looking for any useful seed to feed upon. Of course it wasn't long before a neighborhood cat patrolling the area made them all take flight safely up into all the budding trees, still closely located to the many birdfeeders in my yard. As kitty crossed the yard, I noticed the purple carpet of violets that brought life to my rich green grass (that sorely needs mowing). Hostas were stretching their stems through beds of violets, azalias were donning bonnets of pink, and the hydrangia bush has thrust it's cabbage shaped growth, like long stretched arms, to the sun. Choirs of birds were sending messages to their loved ones that an enemy has crossed into the area; but everyone was safe, and the world was unfolding as it should. And the only other noise I heard was the sound of my heart, because I knew my God was in His heaven today.