Alternative Path Home

​Excerpt from ALTERNATIVE PATH HOME
Our path to that goal will regularly change per the vicissitudes of circumstance and revelations welcomed and avoided.  Belief will change, faith will change, loyalties and friends and memberships will change, and if they don’t the goal sought is of questionable worth.  But somewhere under the career, titles, credos, dogmas, and rituals of daily life, all subject to adaptation and accommodation, the soul’s goal better remain fixed, lest the soul be lost without rudder or sail.
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Indefensible Hope

 INDEFENSIBLE HOPE

​Copyright 2021 Don Ray 

Take heart.  Take no faith in this world, but take heart in its moments of beauty.  It is after all God’s Creation, and its residents God’s children.
 
Take heart, though there be no worldly reason to hope.  All worldly reasons to hope will pass, leaving those who rely on them with no hope at all.

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New published book: "For the Orphaned Children of God"

 

For the Orphaned Children of God

Paperback and Kindle e-version with links to explanatory references

Free e-version for all other e-readers, without links to explanatory references

What is this?....words for when heart, faith, mind, religion, and society are not quite in sync, or maybe even in abject conflict. Who are the "orphaned children of God?" Anyone who with time, growth, and learning has found themselves at odds with once trusted institutions - religious, political, family, or otherwise.....souls who feel like an orphan of a prodigal God.

So, the Religion - Relationship - Political affiliation – Church – Family - Belief system - Spiritual practice – career – investments – orthodoxy - charismatic leader - fraternal organization – society – nation – civilization - and all those other foundations of life didn’t quite fulfill your hopes and dreams after all. They rejected you, or you saw through them, or you drifted apart, or it all blew up in your face, leaving you feeling orphaned by the foundation you most relied on. Take heart. It just means you’re learning and growing.
For the individual (or society) starting over, this compendium of essays about daily life, society, beliefs, faith, meaning, and purpose…..in other words “life” (with a little pseudo-poetry occasionally sprinkled in) reminds of what really matters. Yes, something does still matter, even when it seems all that mattered is lost.
This volume will seem like a hodge-podge mix of disparate topics, but the topics that daily life throws at us are also not politely organized. Our penchant for dissection of life into convenient categories underlies much of our inability to successfully grapple with any of them. In weaving enough random events, contradictory beliefs, and conflicting priorities together, perhaps this compendium will allow you to step back and recognize a pattern in the life that results from it all.
When it’s all done, you may not know much more about individual topics, but perhaps in your response to these unorthodox perspectives you will know a little more yourself.
The reader of this book will be an exquisitely rare individual, not satisfied with blindly accepting institutional edicts, a soul open and eager for alternative perspectives.
You will be different….which is why you have the potential to make a difference.

Storm of Creation

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Copyright 2020 Don Ray

....This world is merely a storm, 
all existence is storm,
a rude disruption of the eternal status quo.
 
Creation does not unfold as a gentle ripple across the shimmering surface of space-time.
 
Creation, of a universe or your soul, 
explodes at the sharp end of the lightning bolt,
expands through the concussion of the thunder.
 
Turn and face it,
let it disrupt your life,
this thunder of ongoing Creation......

Truth.....Any Takers?

Excerpt from Truth.....Any Takers?.  Click to read the whole thing.
Copyright 2020 Don Ray

Truth…..would we even recognize it if it landed on our doorstep?
If it got delivered to each of us would yours be the same as mine?
 
Eternal Truth.
Yeah, maybe someday.  
Sounds a little impractical for now though.
Besides, we've occasionally received some sneak previews and free samples 
and it didn’t go over very well.
 
Worst of all what if it included the truth about us?!
We spend our entire life running from that!
 
If we had the Truth dumped on us
how could we then make up our own?

Fear not?! Are you kidding?! Conversation with an angel.

   “Fear not” is the most common admonition/directive/command in the Bible, appearing 70 to 365 times depending on exact wording.  

So how would you respond to an angel telling you to "fear not"?

Excerpts from Conversation with an angel Click to read all
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Fear not?  Are you flippin' crazy?!  Fear not?!  Have you not seen what has happened, what is happening, and what is bound to happen?!.................
 
Fear not, you white robed bastard with your wings to get you the hell out of here.  But we're stuck here, with precious few instructions.  
 
Damned right we're gonna fear, for we have seen, we have felt, we know how bad it can get.
 ...............
Cut us a little slack when this world and our fate scares the bejeebers out of us.  Stick around and see how long you fear not.  
 .............


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Forgiving God

Forgiving God

Copyright 2017 Don Ray

Is it really all our fault?

Perhaps it is we who need to forgive God.

Blinded to spiritual Reality, the delusional veil of physical existence shrouding our conscious experience, that consciousness caged in a cranium and constrained to interact via a clumsy and defective wetware device called a brain, all the while the resulting attenuated conscious experience consumed by possessing demons of necessary hungers and lusts when not tortured by pain and fear, all anticipating the inevitable dark void of death…..

……shackled in this clinging morass of temporal existence we are supposed to attain heights above the angels?!....

…..becoming fully “human” is supposedly synonymous with accepting our inheritance as the children of God?!

Yes, indeed, yes….

…..for any Love, any compassion, any forgiveness, any selflessness that arises out of this grim entropic cauldron of cruelty and carnal confusion is indeed pure and bright and holy.

With good reason we cry at our birth, and then the abuse, disease, bad examples, bullying, bigotry, social conventions, righteous retribution, and marketing manipulations begin.  Yet somehow, preposterously impossible as it seems, some selfless Love and compassion and tolerance and forgiveness arise.

These are the greater madness, the beautiful irrational madness, arising out of the necessary rational and logical madness of physical lives doomed from their conception. 

This is eternity and holiest Purpose arising out of these fleeting physical forms, from these chrysalides of humanity the Christos arising.

Copyright 2017 Don Ray

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