Browsing Category: Journal Pages

               Count your blessings.  Notice and give thanks when you see and know that you are living out something you have prayed.                I play chess with our youngest son.  Two days now, he’s been obsessed and plays chess as he does everything else: he wants to win, and when he doesn’t—he wants to play […]

        What will people say of our present time when none of us, but relics of our human-moment, remain?         If we bomb—or simply unculture—ourselves back to the Stone Age, what will be made of a combine?  Will it be a giant insect, still possessive of its exoskeleton, of materials unlike any […]

               “Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: ‘Hear another parable.  There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower.  Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.  When vintage time drew near, he […]

               “One day I’ll break this habit…” she speaks to me in dark, eyes closed and half-asleep.  She doesn’t want to move, and though I stir, I allow her to be, “…of needing you to wake me.”                6:30, waking time, she wants another five minutes.  I respect and leave, will return when asked, but […]