R.J. Blizzard's Blog

What is an apology? Do you simply get to say a polite "abracadabra" and it's alright? A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down?What makes an apology sincere? Oh, I'm sorry to hear that . . . we proceed with our day as if we paid a parking ticket. When you wish you could have pulled back those syllables of air that just breathed out your lips . . . forming the word daggers directly from your heart. You immediately rush to plug the dam holding back the torrent of streams of tears bleedi...

I just can’t fitYes, I believe it’s time for us to quitWhen we meet againIntroduced as friendsPlease don’t let on that you knew me whenI was hungry and it was your world Bob Dylan Just Like A Woman "I just can't fit" ... said another way ... He changed? ... She's not the same person ... I don't love him/her anymore. Broken dreams, broken promises, broken lives, and broken hearts follow. We just want to be seen, to matter ... to be heard ... to simply be. You just desperately...

I hear many religious people state this romantic notion that "God has picked out a mate for me". Like it's a cosmic game. I see parents praying that God will send "the actual man or woman" for their child. Why do we place these constructs on ourselves? You are aware in Jesus day, you had no say in a marriage partner, yet Jesus taught about rich relationships that were available to the wedded partners. You did not go to the prom, there were no high school sweethearts. St. Valentine had not eve...

"Hey God.... wanna play catch?" Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so; Little ones to Him belong, they are weak, but He is strong. I'm walking home from the store with my Aunt Mary Jane past the gray stone Presbyterian Church; I can remember the young voices emanating from the church, stirring my pure soul with warmth and "child-like" peace. I would spend the next 40 some odd years trying to find that peace again. Jesus loves me...this I know. This was the first theological st...

I talk with many people who are so miserable, and bored in their existence. Brokenhearted. Most every dream they ever dreamed never happened. The touchdown pass was never thrown in the Super Bowl, storming the beaches of Normandy was not in the cards. Marriage to the Prince never happened. You never saved a life or stopped the crime as a policeman you wished to be as a young lad. Why you never even stopped that bully. There was never the song sang in concert, nor the dance performed before th...