What is the Real World?

The real world is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers. Yet it stands for what is opposite to what you made. Your world is seen through eyes of fear, and brings the witnesses of terror to your mind. The real world cannot be perceived except through eyes forgiveness blesses, so they see a world where terror is impossible and witnesses to fear cannot be found.

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world, as sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is here. There are no cries of pain or sorrow heard, for nothing here remains outside forgiveness, and the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

What need has such a mind for thoughts of death, attack, and murder? What can it perceive surrounding it but safety, love, and joy? What is there it would choose to be condemned? And what is there that it would judge against? The world it sees arises from a mind at peace within itself. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind and only kindness does it look upon.

The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love, the certain promise that he is redeemed. The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.

The Holy Spirit has no need of time when it has served His purpose. Now, He waits but that one instant more for God to take His final step, and time has disappeared, taking perception with it as it goes and leaving but the Truth to be Itself. That instant is our goal, for it contains the memory of God. And as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity Which our forgiveness has restored to us.

My People

My People is a very short play. But, when I read it to small groups, it was always a hit. Funny and poignant, it was selected by DramaRama in New Orleans for production in the spring of 2008.

Nascent Constellation

Nascent Constellation is a collection of short stories - a trilogy plus one. It started as a trilogy, but I always added one more story, a bonus, at the end. It has changed with each printing, but this time it's a partial chapter from the novel in progress. They are funny and personal, fictional and based on real life events. They have been read to audiences from Massachusetts to Florida, North Carolina to Tennessee and Louisiana.

The printed set of paper chapbooks are gone and I've made them into ebooks. More about these booklets will be found Nascent Constellation: Stories of Kindness and Grace