I say that I do not judge others but I only condemn their actions. Is not the act of condemning the judgment of that which they do is wrong? It is something else I must take time to overcome. Exert your will upon no one but only live the truth, as you know it, for…
I did not get my morning started with yoga but instead I finished Dove and had some fruit. It is now time for lunch but I am well provisioned with seed bearing fruits. The book on Robin Lee Graham’s voyage around the world was in part very personal with his thoughts of discovery and yet…
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.