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Always together, here and afterlife
By
Cheryl Petersen
I’ve heard it said that religion and an afterlife were invented to control human beings. Maybe, maybe not. Religious threats of a horrible afterlife if you don’t have good behavior here on earth, don’t work consistently. And life experience teaches otherwise. After Mom and Dad died, I still felt their presence. Religion and an afterlife…
Did someone invent God?
By
Cheryl Petersen
The other day, someone said that God was invented. Maybe. Although I believe pretty strongly that God is real, is divine Spirit. Power itself. I will admit however that if someone else hadn’t invented God, I would. I would do it for the simple reason that God gives me better parenting skills. If one of…
A Father More Than on Father’s Day
By
Cheryl Petersen
You can say I’m in denial, but I don’t think the cancer killed my Dad. He is still alive to me. And, I think of Dad more often than on Father’s Day. Don’t get me wrong. My experience is not always pleasant. But it is thought provoking. Dad could be intimidating when I was growing…
I was drugged by my parents!
By
Cheryl Petersen
First read in Farm Show magazine May 2018: Written by Anonymous The other day, a friend at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse not far away and he asked me, “Why didn’t we have a durg problem when you and I were growing up?”…
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