I crossed the Pacific to get away from that which is to keep suppression of the spirit and find that it has arrived before me. The young people embrace it and the old watch it arrive. It will one day take over every inch of the world with only a few specks that do not…
As of now I am listening to the radio that now is able to have reception and I am enjoying Taiwanese music and commentary. We berthed at fourteen hundred hours and disembarked at eighteen hundred hours. Graham, Scott, and I got on a shuttle that took us to the main gate of the harbor where…
This morning we have arrived off the coast of Taiwan. Visibility is poor, only about four miles and you can just make out the city of Kaohsiung. We will have to sit for a few hours since we have arrived before our berthing time. We should be able to depart from the ship before sundown.…
I am reading a book from the ship’s library called “Dove”. It is about a young-aged man’s journey around the world in his twenty-four-foot sailboat. He was a self-proclaimed pagan and under destroying seas, he asked, God or “whoever you are”, please help me! And he received help, in the way Christ calmed the seas.…
I am spending the night out on the bow of the ATLAS. Skies are relatively clear and a bright moon is now present. As we near Taiwan the traffic is starting to increase and we should see fishing boats in the early A.M. Tomorrow, I will write my sister a letter and have it mailed…
My thoughts are drawn toward my two closest brothers. I find it enlightening that upon my last encounter with each, one was to tear me down and the other was to show me the face of his aggravation. One professes that Thou art god, while he revels in worldly hedonism, while the other believes in…
After receiving inspiration last night on the consumption of food, this morning the steward delivered a full box of butter cookies. It always seems that when I stand upon firm ground, the tempter offers the sweetest deal. For example, when I had decided to follow the spiritual path and forsake the worldly life, I was…
It is not right to exert your will upon anything unless it will help to ease suffering or save a life, but I still have much to become of myself.
I was mistaken on Scott’s words; he is not ready to depart. He says that he is enjoying his time on the boat. We are having wonderful talks on the bow after dinner, watching the sunset and the stellar bodies appear. We search the heavens for what there is to see in them. We talk…
I have been viewing movies but I am almost finished with that.
