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, […]
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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 […]
Short Story
A HEART BENEATH A STONE
“There are some touching illusions which are, perhaps, sublime realities.”—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables A HEART BENEATH A STONE “The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love. Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. How sad is […]
Short Story
ON MOUNTAIN’S TOP
“Sharpen your sight, Reader: the truth, this time, is covered by a thinning veil, and so, the meaning should be easy to perceive.” —Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Purgatory, Canto VII, lines 19-21. “I’m reading it all again,” Ryan shared. “I finished Vita Nuova and began The Diving Comedy yesterday. I didn’t sleep well […]
Journal Pages
MR. LESSMORE
I read to my daughter last night. It was a book we had not shared together in many years; a children’s book that, like most beautiful stories, says something more and different as we grow and learn its telling in different life lights. It told of a man who loved books, who began […]