suffering

June 10, 2024

Have you eaten from the tree?

Picture the parent, arms akimbo, confronting the young child. “Have you been eating chocolate?” The child, face covered with chocolate and a “Who, me?” expression, answers, “No, not me!” Now intensify that scene several hundred times, and imagine God calling to Adam in the garden, “Where are you?” and Adam, knowing he’d been caught, trying Continue reading

Ruminations

Adam’s guilt, disobedience, expulsion from paradise, garden of Eden, good and bad, good and evil, hardship, if your eye is healthy, if your eye is single, integrity, light and dark, suffering, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, why bad things happen
November 19, 2023

God in the gains and losses

Some scriptures to me are like a sweet dessert: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength” (Isa. 30:15); “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, God’s mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning, as sure as the sunrise” (Lam. 3:22-23); “Teach Continue reading

Ruminations

betrayal, difficult scriptures, do the right thing, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, failure, for everything there is a season, good and evil, life’s unfairness, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, outer darkness, overcoming, parable of the talents, suffering, talents, the best-laid schemes

About Me

Rich Neal is, in no particular order, a wordsmith and graphic designer; lover of typography, books, and publishing; photographer; contemplative; saunterer; and a retired and still-active pastor. He claims neither special wisdom nor particularly deep insight into life, only occasional glimpses of what lies behind the veil along the way. He shares them here in the hope of connecting the pieces of life’s puzzle that come to him in the journey and would consider it a gift if sharing them also connected him with others who travel an unmarked path toward the same unknown end.

suffering

Have you eaten from the tree?

God in the gains and losses