by jamesbondly | Jan 24, 2024 | Spiritual
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” ― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason...
by jamesbondly | Sep 25, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual
Honor God in everything you do Especially when the task stretches your ability. Honoring God in what comes easy is like emailing a birthday card. Glorifying God in the challenging, nearly impossible, distasteful chores is chasing the heart of God. Most of the tasks I...
by jamesbondly | Sep 15, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual
Desperation A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people. America has given roughly $76 billion in support to Ukraine, which has...
by jamesbondly | Aug 27, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual
I was born in 1950, and my formative years and schooling until 1969 when I joined the Navy to avoid the Vietnam draft. It was the age of TV “Father knows best,” ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ “Dick Van Dyke Show,’ ‘I Love Lucy...
by jamesbondly | Aug 15, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual
Deception & Self Deception Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times, some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons—1 Timothy 4:1 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and...
by jamesbondly | Aug 12, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
FRAILTY THE REALIZATION OF AGE The photo above is not me; it is Walter at ninety-eight, a man who lived the good life and ran the race. Walter convinced me I could walk a marathon. I was seventy when I walked my first marathon, three years have passed, and I have not...
