STYLE

Too cold to be out walking near the water.  Too cold to worry about style.

Nancy-Lou you are one classy lady, a woman of generosity and kindness.
Thank you for sharing and caring.
Your kind words are always appreciated!
I am not a very style conscious  person; but my daughters and grand daughters and even great grandchildren are!

I have to admit I like being comfortable in old clothing.  These days I am wearing long underwear, warm sweaters, mitts and scarfs.  Most of the ladies at Colebrook will be involved in putting on and hosting the fashion show this afternoon.  I know that they have great fun.  This year we have another invitation to a graduation tea to attend, whoops it is Sunday not Saturday.  I was sure Sat. was the 25th.

Dad has been invited to the men's gathering at the White Spot where the men whoses wifes are busy at the fashion show will have a get together.  Maybe I go go that in disquise,

I am more like Barbara in the Lynly Detective Stories than some of the more attractive women he meets and falls for.  I keep hoping he will see Barbara Havers for who she really is.

I am also looking for a style of writing that can hold my attention and be worth reading.

These are four I just got from the library.

The style today when it comes to religion is to be critical and skeptical.  A part of this is what we are becoming socially conditioned to because we are influenced by people we admire and want to have a presence in our lives.  All religions are not the same and have very different doctrines and beliefs. 

Judaism, Christianity and Islam believe in a God who holds people accountable for their beliefs and practices, and God attributes can not be reduced to pure love.  Buddhism does not believe in a personal God at all.  I went to visit Jim yesterday and it is sad his heart is full of anger and he told me not to bother and come any more. I  wish prayer would help him.  I would like to go and take both his hands and pray for peace in his soul as his life is leaving him.  Maybe I will and say good-bye but first I may just pass by and say a quick hello and carry on visiting others.

Long ago in "my day" going to church was an important part of most people's lives although even at that time people were drifting away and become more scientifically sophisticated and felt more in control of their own destinies.

Religion has created intolerance by insisting that their religious path is the true one.  Religious people are easy to stereotype and caricature as any one who watches T.V. or movies or reads will find out.  This is the style in today's worldview.

There is truth in all the negativity but I will continue to weigh and try to find a balance.

"Skeptics believe that any exclusive claims to a superior knowledge of spiritual reality cannot be true.
But this objection is itself a religious belief that assumes that God is unknowable, or that God is loving but not wrathful, or that God is an impersonal force rather than a person who speaks through scripture.
All these are unprovable faith assumptions."
"The Reason For God"  by Timothy Keller.

I want to respect what others believe but be firm in what I choose to believe.  Religion is nor going away and is growing stronger in other countries like Africa and China and Korea.  What they believe is a robust super naturalist kind of faith, with belief in miracles, Scriptural authority and personal conversion.

Doubt and faith are learned responses and I wonder why atheists are also proselytizers?

Actually turning out warm today so may shed my long underwear.  Dad may go for a bike ride.
How great is that! !