Held by Natalie Grant Two months is too little. They let him go. They had no sudden healing. To think that providence would Take a child from his mother while she prays Is appalling. Who told us we’d be rescued? What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares? We’re asking why this […]
Read moreWhen we were in Kenya, Bill and Carolyn (Bill’s father and stepmother) had not yet sold their house. The house they’ve lived in for 24 years; the house in which they combined their two families; the house on whose family room floor, nineteen years ago, I fell in love with my husband. Now it is […]
Read moreI am allowing myself One Book this summer– one book that falls outside of my list of MustReads (and that list is long, as I have a thesis for which I must be doing research, and also a certain Joseph and His Brothers which warrants some Serious Revisiting, and also a List Of Books that […]
Read moreShakespeare said that sleep “winds the raveled sleeve of care.” And so it does. Mercy. But before my eyes are even open, when the first conscious thoughts begin to come, that sleeve is looking frayed about the edges. This morning it had unwound a good part of its way before I got out of bed, […]
Read morei have closed myself as fingers It has been a week of this kind of closing. Hurt me and– should I be surprised?– I am no different from the box turtle in my garden or the mussels in their sandy bed in the bay. I will withdraw; I will shut myself; I will not let […]
Read moreAnd the moon is a sliver of silverlike a shaving that fell on the floorof a Carpenter’s shopand every house must have its builderand I awoke in the house of Godwhere the windows are morningsand eveningsstretched from the sun, across the skynorth to southand on my way to early meeting, I heard therocks crying out…. […]
Read moreyou wake up and you Just Know– before you even open your eyes– that you didn’t get enough sleep. you really hate your new haircut. you eat a breakfast that is simply overloaded with sugar, and you don’t usually do that, and then you pay for it. your car has something Really Wrong with it. […]
Read moreThat’s a new word for me. I learned it on Tuesday afternoon while meeting with my professor. He’s German, you see, and so could translate for me what Woods did not translate when he produced the English version of Joseph and His Brothers. Schadenfreude is this: the pleasure one takes in the misfortune of another. […]
Read moreLately in my class, the students and I have been perusing ancient Greek playwrights and philosophers. You’ve heard of them: Sophocles, Socrates, Plato. Truth is a Big Issue for these guys, and our discussion about that has led to debates about more modern and post-modern ideas. Where, exactly, is Truth? What is it? And can’t […]
Read more“Everything is necessary that He sends. Nothing can be necessary that He withholds.” — John Newton, author of “Amazing Grace”
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