LUKE 6 Luke 6 begins with Jesus and his disciples being questioned for gathering food to eat, and for performing acts on the Sabbath. As Jesus begins to fulfill his purpose on earth, those in established and, judging, positions become more intent on detecting and admonishing faults and his breakings of holy commandments. […]
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Short Story
LATE
He watched as she readied her children for church, the attention and care she put into their dress, hair, presentability; licking her fingers and smoothing wildness in son’s hair by combing it with touch back to cultivated order. Her studied her, in her own dismissing of self in service to her children, another […]
Short Story
PURIFIED SOUL
“…the whole framework of the universe does homage and service to him who thus purifies and sanctifies his senses.”—Saint Bonaventure, The Life of St. Francis of Assisi They read the quote beneath a sky of stars, the Milky Way as backdrop shadow-light behind nearer stars arranged into near dreams and constellations shaped with accompanied […]
Bible Thought
LUKE 5: JESUS CALLS HIS FIRST DISCIPLES
LUKE 5 Luke 5 begins with Jesus calling his first disciples. The first disciple is Simon Peter. Jesus joins Simon Peter in his boat and, after a full night of unfruitful fishing, Jesus tells Simon to “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.” Simon answers with skepticism, […]
Short Story
DROUGHT
The sky shone blue but in the fire of summer sun, too long since rain, burned hot and harsh without wind. Ryan was already sweating, and staring on the world, all he could see were sign of settling drought as the means to a livelihood went dormant or outright died. It was all […]
Bible Thought
LUKE 3 and 4: TEMPTATION AND BEGINNING TESTIMONY
LUKE 3, LUKE 4 Luke 3 speaks of Jesus’ cousin, John the Baptist, in the desert foreshadowing the revelation of Jesus as the son of God to the greater masses of men. John speaks, “I indeed baptize you with water; but there shall come one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I […]
Journal Pages
MESSENGER OR FOOL
Messenger or fool? Does it really matter? Maybe it takes being the latter to ever have chance at becoming the first: living, giving, and telling the pieces of us we know better than to share but desire to speak and share all the same. Maybe knowing better isn’t always a faculty of reason but […]
Bible Thought
LUKE 2
LUKE 2 Luke 2 tells of the birth of Jesus. It begins with the mandatory census that would enroll all people within the Roman Kingdom, and it was the reason Joseph, Mary, and Jesus were traveling to Bethlehem. Jesus was born in a manger and wrapped in swaddling cloth “because there was no […]
Bible Thought
SOMETHING NEW: LUKE 1
LUKE 1 I’m starting something new today. I read a lot of books, pull thoughts and share quotes as I do, but I’ve never really done that with the Bible. Today, I want to start. Sometimes, fretting over where and now to start something impedes us from the only thing beginning something new requires: […]
Journal Pages / Quick Thought
ALIGNMENT
For three days, I have serviced, repaired, and immediately after watched a rotary disk mower-conditioner self-destruct. For three days, I read the manual, servicing all pieces shown, replacing all worn parts, aligned timing marks for disk rotations—all as the manuals instructed—and, on engaging and starting the mower once again, witnessed its immediate annihilation of […]