Recently, I attended the birthday party of the daughter of a friend of mine who is also a neighbour. It was the child’s first birthday, and the party was held at a fancy café in town. When I arrived at the venue, a sizable number of invitees were already present, mostly adults (presumably, friends, colleagues or relatives of my friend and his spouse). The place had been specially done up for the occasion. There were games to be played (organized perhaps by the café folks them

He claimed that God had specially sent Him into the world with the clear intent To be His spokesman for all time to come For all human beings, and not just some, And that they who believed what he said Would go to Paradise when they were dead, While those who rejected what he’d tell Would be tortured by God forever in Hell.   No evidence at all for his claims he had, His own people declared he’d gone mad For all the preposterous things that he said, Thinking him to be demon-p

This morning, when in my bed, This thought came into my head: In the world, only one will prevails, Even in the smallest of details.  If this is true, then every thought Every word, every deed wrought, On Earth, and elsewhere, too, Even all that you and I do, All actions done, of every kind, Are willed by a single mind, Which decrees things to occur, As ‘God’ to this mind one can refer. If this is so, it would mean God’s will alone has ever been. This, in turn, would suggest