True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Evil exemplifies the contemptuous transgression and annihilation of virtue.

God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my __onkey mind,_ which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees. On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big Sky, I stopped thinking and started looking and listening. That's when I realized winter was turning into spring before me. Change was happening. Creation, and perhaps the Creator, was speaking. I just needed to be outside to hear the voice.

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!