I have a confession. Until recently, I had not read C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. I know, hard to believe, right? Especially for a kid from an evangelical background, but the truth is, I found the constant analogies annoying. I would get a chapter or two into it and my […]
Monthly Archives: September 2024
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Wendell Berry, Sabbath Poems, 1982. VII The clearing rests in song and shade. It is a creature made By old light held in soil and leaf, By human joy and grief, By human work, Fidelity of sight and stroke, By rain; by water on The parent stone. We join our work to Heaven’s gift, Our hope to what is […]
Tying your dress shoes in a double knot,Like an eight-year-old. Running off the bus and flopping on the couch after school, Like an eight year old. Putting together your LEGO early in the morning (and late at night),Like an eight-year-old. Sledding down the hill at the back of your friend’s house,Like […]
This is an entry in the “Acrostic Contemplations.” Jack Russell was a priest, yet most only now know of the dog breed that he developed. The Jack Russell Terrier is a short-haired, short-legged fox terrier with white body and red markings is well known for its energy and mischievous. There […]
This is an entry in the “Acrostic Contemplations.” Immortality is a long time. At some point in our lives, we all think about death, the end of this life, which is all we have known and, therefore, all we can comprehend. Death, we know because we have seen it, is […]