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  • A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey
    • Introduction
    • We Are The Ones Who Say So!
    • The Two Things
    • Perfection
    • Prayer
    • What Works?
    • It’s a Mess Out There–Or, Is It?
    • The Foundation of Faith
    • Community and Chaos
    • How the Church Changes Its Mind
    • Influencing What Can Be Influenced
    • The Evolution of the Idea of God
    • The Six Statements
    • Ten Short Thoughts
    • The Source and the Void
    • The Wall of Death
    • The Holy Mother
    • The Heart of What Matters Most
    • Living Our Life
    • The Mystery at the Heart of Life and Being
    • Life Unfolds According to Its Own Good Pleasure
    • The Moral, the Good and the Bible
    • A Short Reading List for the Spiritual Journey
    • The Bible as Mirror, Map and Metaphor
    • The Freedom to Be Here Now
    • Right Belief
    • Stay on the Beam!
    • What We Get Is Who We Are
    • Walking Two Paths at the Same Time
    • Creating a Worthy Life
    • Learning to be Individuals
    • Of Dreams and Treasure
    • It’s a Shifting Perspective…
    • The Mythic Vision
    • The Path to Numinous Reality
    • Here’s to the Day!
    • Doing Justice
    • Arrogance and the Profit Motive
    • Communities of Innocence
    • Tools? Or, Props?
    • The Right Kind of Conversation
    • The Nature of Spiritual Reality I
    • The Nature of Spiritual Reality II
    • The Nature of Spiritual Reality III
    • The Nature of Spiritual Reality IV
  • An Old Preacher’s Manifesto
    • Introduction: An Old Preacher’s Manifesto
    • Ditching Theology and Doctrine, Part 1
    • Ditching Theology and Doctrine, Part 2
    • Don’t Believe in God–BE God!
    • The Path to the Authentic Self
    • True Belief
    • The Gospel Truth
    • Doing the Work to Find Our Work, Our Life
    • We Do Our Own Work, Part 1
    • We Do Our Own Work, Part 2
    • We Do Our Own Work, Part 3
    • What Does Wanting Know?
    • The Buddha, The Christ, and The Prophet
    • Fate and Destiny
    • God
    • The Messiah is Not the Messiah!
    • Death and Resurrection
    • Holy Week
    • In Praise of a Second Life
    • Good Religion
    • A Meditation on Light and Dark, Part 1
    • A Meditation on Light and Dark, Part 2
    • Of Dreams and Glory, and What Are We Here For?
    • Outlets of Grace
    • Discernment and the Community of Innocence
    • Of Roles, Wants and Values
    • The Worst Thing About the Bible
    • The Peace of God
    • The Fight for Life
    • Symbols of Transformation
    • The New Religion
    • The Foundation of Good Religion
    • The Stone of Life
    • The Way of Soul Is the Way of Life
  • I Call This Poetry
    • Introduction: I Call This Poetry
    • The Stile
    • Madonna with Child
    • Sit and Listen
    • Being Graded
    • Here Only Once
    • Fog
    • Popping
    • Drawing Lines
    • Credo
    • A Poem About Cats
    • Conversation
    • Jesus
    • There are two of us
    • Red Toenails
    • The Young Girls
    • Life Is a Kayak
    • Wolves
    • Notice Everything
    • Just Faces
    • Advice
    • Do You Believe In God?
    • Anima and Animus
    • The Fight for Life
    • The Greater Miracle
    • The Soul’s Burden
  • The Art of Photography
    • Disclosure
    • The First Week
    • The Second Week
    • The Third Week
    • The Fourth Week
  • Loose Change
    • Introduction: Loose Change
    • Fate and Destiny
    • Good and Bad Religion
    • The Hero’s Journey
    • Pivot Points and Perspective Shifts
    • Our Original Nature
    • Grounded, Centered, Focused
    • A Philosophy of Health
    • Your Totem Animal
    • The Structure of Spiritual Reality
    • The Limits of Religion
    • We Have to be Right
    • Grace, Karma, Karma, Grace
    • The Meaning of Life
    • The Good and the Void
  • One Minute Monologues
    • Introduction: One Minute Monologues
    • One Minute Monologues 001
    • One Minute Monologues 002
    • One Minute Monologues 003
    • One Minute Monologues 004
    • One Minute Monologues 005
    • One Minute Monologues 006
    • One Minute Monologues 007
    • One Minute Monologues 008
    • One Minute Monologues 009
    • One Minute Monologues 010
    • One Minute Monologues 011
    • One Minute Monologues 012
    • One Minute Monologues 013
    • One Minute Monologues 014
    • One Minute Monologues 015
    • One Minute Monologues 016
    • One Minute Monologues 017
    • One Minute Monologues 018
    • One Minute Monologues 019
    • One Minute Monologues 020
    • One Minute Monologues 021
    • One Minute Monologues 022
    • One Minute Monologues 023
    • One Minute Monologues 024
    • One Minute Monologues 025
    • One Minute Monologues 026
    • One Minute Monologues 027
    • One Minute Monologues 028
    • One Minute Monologues 029
    • One Minute Monologues 030
    • One Minute Monologues 031
    • One Minute Monologues 032
    • One Minute Monologues 033
    • One Minute Monologues 034
    • One Minute Monologues 035
    • One Minute Monologues 036
    • One Minute Monologues 037
    • One Minute Monologues 038
    • One Minute Monologues 039-A
    • One Minute Monologues 039-B
    • One Minute Monologues 040
    • One Minute Monologues 041
    • One Minute Monologues 042
    • One Minute Monologues 043
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    • One Minute Monologues 050
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    • One Minute Monologues 053
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    • One Minute Monologues 59
    • One Minute Monologues 060
    • One Minute Monologues 061
  • Story Time
    • The Frog King
    • The Little Engine Revisited
    • Kiddie Hawk
    • Sour Sophie
    • The Magic Stick
    • The Dome
    • The Land of the Critters
    • Sir Sidney the Brave
    • Introduction to Story Time
    • The Story of Wallace Boggs
  • Blurbs
  • The Tao of Jesus
  • The Parable of the Prodigal Son
  • Mathematics and Poetry, All the Way Down

Category Archives: The Frog King

The Frog King

It happened quite by accident deep in the night when the moon was dark and dense clouds covered the sky, and no one could see anything if they were awake that late, looking, which the Wicked Witch Peggy of the Dismal Forest was. Of course, you couldn’t actually say she was “looking” for anything—it wasContinue reading “The Frog King”

Posted byjimwdollarSeptember 24, 2020October 16, 2020Posted inStory Time, The Frog KingLeave a comment on The Frog King
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