They sat outside at table under sky of changing mood. Gone were the still winds and clear sky of before as front approached, grey and lavender depths of layered watercolor sky with wisps and tails of rain arced in curl by winds in undertow beneath. Fallen leaves, dried and curled, scattered in scratch across […]
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Journal Pages
WRITING LETTERS
I’ve returned to an old practice: writing letters. There were times and years in my life when I lived distant and apart from many that I loved. I never said much over a phone, and the emotions, thoughts, and affinities I held within never seemed to speak—unless I wrote them down. Back then, I […]
Short Story
EVANESCENCE
“And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake, And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood: and the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken […]
Short Story
STARLINK
Ryan and Emma lain together on flatbed of truck, the cool of autumn’s arrival drawing and keeping one another near in arms and hold of the other. They stared on the clear night sky as softening songs of crickets sang the last of their cantos before frost’s season of silence. They stared on […]
Short Story
MARKED PAGE
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 […]
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. […]