After going to bed Too Late last night After waking up at 5:24 and getting up at 5:43 and reading the story of the parting of the Red Sea After showering and dressing and feeding the kitties, after setting the table for breakfast and tidying the kitchen and writing notes on napkins After fleeing the […]
Read more“It is the dead who have lost their life, but the living experience death. Blessed is he who loves you, who loves his friend in you and his enemy for your sake. Only he to whom all are dear in Him who cannot be lost, can lose no one that he loves. And who is […]
Read moreTell me something plainly; tell me something True.
Read moreHere at the end of the day I come crawling to a stop. I taught all day and lost my voice again and am wondering what’s to become of this lately chronic malady. A doctor’s appointment is clearly pressing, but other things press harder, and it’s to these things I attend. So today I attended […]
Read moreCan heaven and earth, then, contain you, seeing as you fill them? Or when you fill them, is some part of your being left over, as they cannot contain you? And where do you pour it back, this portion of you that remains after you have filled heaven and earth? Or do you not need […]
Read more“The house of my soul is narrow, too narrow for you to come into it; enter it, and make it wider. It lies in ruins; rebuild it. There are things about it that will offend your eyes; I know it and confess it. But who will make it clean? To whom but you can I […]
Read more“You give and take awayYou give and take awayMy heart will choose to say,“Lord, blessed be Your Name.”-Matt Redman
Read moreA friend shared a story with me– years ago now– about an incident with her (how old was he at the time?) two-year-old son. She, like me, was at home with her children all day and they, like mine, enjoyed a snack from time to time. He was, it seems, very fond of cookies. Or […]
Read morefrom spiralling ecstatically this proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious nightblossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes–gifted with every keener appetite than mere unmiracle can quite appease–humbly in their imagined bodies kneel(over time space doom dream while floats the whole perhapsless mystery of paradise) mind without soul may blast some universeto might have been,and stop ten thousand […]
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