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Welcome to my Journal!

I have been blogging since February 2004 beginning with Blogger.com. I also posted on Bravejournal.com, then tried LiveJournal but didn’t like it, then with Squarespace, finally landing, more or less permanently with WordPress on a hosted server.
I post mostly about spirituality, my life and family and ocassionally a poem or two, and perhaps an occasional political rant.
Feel free to leave a comment for good or ill. I promise I won’t get mad or upset.
Enjoy,
Ron
My email: ronforhair@yahoo.com

Need more detail? See below….

A brief manifesto, almost….

All of you know by now that I have crossed over to the ‘dark side’ (of the religious world) towards a more inclusive i.e.; ‘liberal’ viewpoint. (Tongue firmly planted in cheek) Actually, I have always been on the cutting edge, even in the old days of my rampant evangelicalism. I always asked myself the hard questions. I always tried to dig a little deeper, wanting more of God than I was finding. (Not realizing that I already had all of God there was to have, fully incarnate, fully present in every moment, fully within me in the wholeness of my being here and now and forever).
I have embraced the idea (doctrine) of grace as a primary characterization of the nature and action of God in my, and all of our lives. Thus my natural tendency to judge others is mollified by such a love expressed towards my many failings, utterly devouring any sense of guilt or shame I may have felt. This expression of God is not something God does, it is simply and purely who God is. (1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:16) And you thought I forgot how to use the Bible, didn’t ya!
And, since I know and have experienced the utter lack of separation (of which I have posted before) between God and I and indeed all creation (all that is, ‘existence exists’ -Ayn Rand) I am constantly reminded that I too am love at the core of being by virtue of another idea (doctrine), that of union, oneness, expressed by Jesus in John 17:21-23. Go ahead, take a break and look it up already.
Thus my favorite motto which I would hope to make fully realizable in my daily experience is;
“Remember who you really are and be that�, -Neale Donald Walsch. It is not about trying to become something I am not. It is about realizing that the God of our experience is just that (immanent within creation) and that my ‘walk with Him’ is His walk with me. (Pardon the gender speak. It’s just easier that way). Thus, if I screw up I have the ability to re-member who I really am and make things right should that be required. This, of course, means that I be as fully conscious, (awake, aware) as I can be in any and all moments. We, (I), cannot sleepwalk through life as most of the world does. (Be not of this world). Present moment mindfulness is the spiritual practice I attempt to observe as best I can.

“Remember who you really are and be that� is from Neale Donald Walsch- ‘Conversations With God’, book one