I have a sense of where to go with the Ruby story, but just do not have it in me tonight to whittle the next chapter out. Too tired. I will just say Thank You to my folks for raising me around the Bible. The world is weird. Progress says that all of our...
Read more →Cry, but do not quake. In the end, we are droplets dripping into the same sea. Spirit to spirit, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Light takes flight, and dark sloughs off until the next spark, the next miraculous burn, the next colorful comet. But we, our incandescence done, commune with the Maker, our...
Read more →I try to make sense of it, as the days come and go, why some things spin off like they do. There probably is no making sense of it really. Why some people we want to love us want nothing to do with us. Why some people we struggle to like want to be...
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“Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.” – James 5:7 Growing up as a Southern Baptist kid in the evangelical tradition, I didn’t go to a church that was all...
Read more →Sometimes I like to stop and think about David- yeah, that guy in the Bible- because the Good Book says that God really loved David, because David was “a man after God’s own heart.” I try to figure out what that means, what David did to have a heart like God’s, because I’d like...
Read more →It’s been a couple of days since I have written and posted anything here. I guess the silence has been useful to let me know that at least two people read these posts. It’s always encouraging to hear back from friends that they miss your posts. Encouragement to write is always well received. For...
Read more →I’m a melancholy. This means I often wade out into each day half-cocked, one foot in and one foot out, anticipating morning misgivings and wishing my work space was a mattress-lined, dimly-lit den, and that my work was simply to wake up and go back to sleep five times a day. My mood grabs...
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