“…maybe sometimes it’s riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you’re guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.”
― Danny Wallace, Yes Man
Be practical and expect miracles
if you just take the first step forward every day.
– Richard Edward Ward
Sounding Board Career Life Coach
Yesterday today was my tomorrow.
– Richard Edward Ward
Be practical and expect miracles
if you just take the first step forward every day.
– Richard Edward Ward
Sounding Board Career Life Coach
My journey and your journey began with baby steps.
Be practical and expect miracles
if you just take the first step forward every day.
– Richard Edward Ward
One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide.
Oh oh, what have I done? came to me as a thought at the moment I was conceived.
As a spiritual being having a human experience we often choose our next human experience.
More than 71 years later I still wonder.
Reincarnation is found, even if it is not mainstream, within religions around the world including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Judaism, and Sihkism.
A belief in rebirth/metempsychosis was held by Greek historic figures, such as Plato, Pythagoras, and Socrates.
Copyright © 2019 by Richard Edward Ward
Many people do not pray because they do not believe in God, or a God, or any God.
But prayer does not require belief in a God.
Praying for someone to overcome misfortune
or ill health or to wish them good fortune
only requires that you believe that the good
you feel in your heart will connect with
the good in the hearts of others.
Richard Edward Ward
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
April 24, 2019
Copyright © 2019 by Richard Edward Ward
Looking at The Sacrament Of The Last Supper painted by Salvador Dalí brings back many memories of when I was studying for a Bachelor of Theology degree in the 70s in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
I had a large print copy of the painting hanging in my apartment. It was very, very trippy and then some.
The School of Religious Studies, at McGill, has enjoyed a long history of providing a wide range of programs, including B.A. programs, theological programs, and several specialized graduate degree programs. The School’s expertise in world religions engages many methods and disciplines, combining the rigorous and historically focused study of religious traditions and contexts with approaches that explore contemporary expressions of religions.
I was also working as a bouncer in a bar, The Boiler Room, on Crescent Street. The bar lasted from about 1969 to 1973, and later taken over by an expanded Sir Winston Churchill Pub, was opened by the legendary John Vago, the King of Crescent St., (December 5, 1923 October 20, 2018 ) who was responsible for creating much of Montreal’s downtown club scene. Read Last hurrah for the King of Crescent St. written by Bill Brownstein in the Montreal Gazette.
Vago, along with his now-deceased brother Peter, is credited for having designed, built and/or owned over 150 city bars and restaurants — including the famed Boiler Room, Casa Pedro, Pam Pam, Carmen and Don Juan. He is also credited for having brought the café culture of Europe here to de la Montagne and Stanley Sts.
Lots of memories.
