All Posts By: Byron McCoy

               “Seven times I have counted scripture saying you saw that what you made was good.  But on the eighth occasion when you saw all that you had made, it says they were not merely good but ‘very good’—as if taking everything at once into account.  For individual items were only ‘good’, but everything taken […]

               “And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on (their) countenance; nor on the height of (their) stature…for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.”—1 Samuel 16: 7 _____                Before her presence, his spirit fluttered; her energy, aura, grace of being, all he sensed but could not explain […]

               In morning after wake of love and dream, they slept through gloam of dawn’s beginning and rose to full-view cast of golden light through east window of the room.  In its warmth and light, they shone in glow of shared soothe and after-peace that is exhaustion of intimate affections well-expressed.                They appeared in […]

               “They have no need to look up to the firmament and to read so as to know your word.  They ever ‘see your face’ and there, without syllables requiring time to pronounce, they read what your eternal will intends.  They read, they choose, they love.  They ever read, and what they read never passes […]

               “The surface meaning lies open before us and charms beginners.  Yet the depth is amazing, my God, the depth is amazing.  To concentrate on it is to experience awe—the awe of adoration before the transcendence and the trembling of love.” [i]—Saint Augustine _____                Annie rested in repose reading in white robe reclined on […]

               “The very queen of colours, which bathes with light all that we see, wherever I may be during the day, comes down upon me with gentle subtlety through many media, while I am doing something else and not noticing it.  But the light makes its way with such power that, if suddenly it is […]