He drank himself blind wallowing in relived histories of sin. His mind and senses replayed the past, seeing and feeling all again: war, murder, the soft pull of a trigger and the heart-skip, soul-thump of dropped ordinance in close range; each murder-song of heavy and medium machine guns firing, the light crack near and […]
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Bible Thought
EPHESIANS 5: AWAY FROM DARKNESS AND THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE
EPHESIANS 5 In Ephesians 5, Saint Paul begins with a call to check our spirits, our inclinations, desires, and those with whom we associate. “Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us…fornication, and all uncleanness, […]
Bible Thought
EPHESIANS 4
EPHESIANS 4 Something I value in the Letters of Saint Paul is that, unlike the Gospels which are tellings of Jesus’ acts and life, the letters of Saint Paul speak and display the effect and spirit Jesus’ touch has on the living and acts of someone who is completely human. As one who once […]
Faith / Journal Pages
A BAD MAN
I believe God sends us messages and signs when we are open to their receiving. I believe he sends rebukes when needed just as he sends encouragement when that is what our spirits need. To be open to the messages is to allow God to speak to the pieces and nature within us that […]
Faith / Short Story
JOB
Emmanual walked with his angel in place of solitude protected by folds and rollings of the earth, away from any man’s sight, and where only Heaven above could see. The pastures were low grazed save the tops of Indiangrass and bluestem bunches whose course late-season stems were avoided by the ranging cattle leaving their […]
Short Story
TRANSITION
“There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for everything under the heavens. A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. […]
Bible Thought
ECCLESIASTES 3
“There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for everything under the heavens. A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. […]
Bible Thought / Faith
THE FEAST OF SAINT MATTHEW
This past Wednesday was the Feast of Saint Matthew. I learned this when going to a set of readings for a daily mass on USCCB. I won’t pretend to know much about him (only reading the day’s gospel did I remember/learn he was a tax collector), but Saint Matthew is special to me because […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
ASH HEAP
“Precious things make beautiful flames.”—John Steinbeck in letter to Carl Wilhelmson, 1930