Faith seeking understanding, my personal journey towards a deeper knowledge of and intimacy with God, the cosmos, humanity and myself through thoughts, words and (occasionally) images, is a series of [hopefully] daily reflections I’m writing with the purpose of publishing something on a regular basis for others to read, either here, at joncarllewis.com or among my writings at Medium.com.

About a month ago, I read an article by Pamela Hodges on the website The Write Practice entitled “How to Write a Manifesto: The Struggling Writer’s Guide.” It seemed like a good idea. I wanted a manifesto. I have strong ideas about a number of issues and topics. I have deeply held and hard-won opinions that I want to share with the world. But, after I read the article, nothing came to mind for me. I found this strange, and it has taken me this long to get around to solving my problem.

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Faith seeking understanding, my personal journey towards a deeper knowledge of and intimacy with God, the cosmos, humanity and myself through thoughts, words and (occasionally) images, is a series of [hopefully] daily reflections I’m writing with the purpose of publishing something on a regular basis for others to read, either here, at joncarllewis.com or among my writings at Medium.com.

Faith Seeking Understanding, Day 2. Or is this day 1 since yesterday was basically an introduction? No matter. All day I’ve been hearing in my mind Michael W. Smith singing his song “Friends” which he performed at the funeral of George HW Bush several days ago. It was an interesting choice of music for an Episcopal service, and it made me wonder how many people out there like me love both the Anglican liturgy and the music of Michael W. Smith.

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