Browsing Category: Journal Pages

               God is calling me to be quiet.  A week into Lent, I’ve given little up—but still I hear God call, discerning what He asks.                God is calling me to be quiet, to silent and separate from noise and distractions that take away from life and days.                 I chase cheap dopamine rewards.  I […]

        An hour earlier, sun is brighter this evening as I settle onto porch.  Today was cold and windy.  It was the same a few minutes ago, but it is calm now.  Maybe it’s direction of the breeze and break of the house between, or maybe it’s really died and lessened down.         My […]

        Last (and maybe first) cigar of the month, lengthening days, warmed in flannel, I sit with evening sky.  My throat is already scratchy and achy from coaching a morning full of basketball games.  What harm is a cigar on top and to wind day down?         Evening’s colder than they’ve been.  Winter is […]

               Do you ever stop and think how so many of life’s blessings, gifts, and breakthroughs begin of moments that seem anything but these.                I witnessed one this week.                Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, we went as a family to evening mass.  Our youngest had baseball just before in the gym of our church’s school.  […]

               Have you ever encountered places of magic, places where idiosyncrasies are recognized and repeated, where—in going there—you expect for things to happen, and they do?                I returned to one today—a place where my daughter plays volleyball.  Last year, I met a friend I had not seen in years.  His daughter, year younger, was […]

        I’m tired.  I want to write a romance, but I don’t have the words tonight.  I’ll leave it as a dream, and at that, I go to sleep.