Browsing Category: Journal Pages

BEAUTIFUL MESS

            I’m putting out mineral for cattle.  I’m in a hurry and couldn’t tell you why.  I have all day.             The ground is still wet, and the Jeep slides everywhere we go.  I walk the bags of mineral to where they’re placed—the blocks of salt as well—because even the Jeep will not make it where […]

TRUE SPRING

We’re told our world is scary, But—outside—it is not so. The grass is green.  There’s blooms on trees. Spring is as it seems:   Sometimes cold, sometimes warm; Sometimes clear, sometimes storms; All aligned to God’s Design. Fear not man’s alarums For Truth, Good, and Life Anew         —like Spring— Will soon break through.   […]

BOY’S WORLD

            There is a difference in boys and girls, and it is apparent from the moment when they wake.  There is nothing quiet about my boys.  Their sounds and movement are made known the instant that they rise.  They sleep in the same room, and when one stirs, they ensure the other is not far […]

BETTER DAYS

Maybe, looking back,We will see this as a start:When we saw life wasn’t for ourselvesAnd learned to give our hearts. Maybe it’s the darknessThat conditions us for light.Perhaps the wonder of new dayLies just beyond this Night. We can leave our thoughts at fear,Freeze ourselves in place.I prefer to think all thisPrecedes our better days. […]

BEFORE AND AFTER

            The worst part is waiting.  You don’t know until it starts.  You play it all in your head before it ever comes.  Some of it happens.  Some of it does not, but you see and play the contingencies, anticipating first contact, response, and follow-on actions before they ever rise.  It fires then wears your […]

HURT

            I didn’t sleep last night.  My mind wouldn’t rest.  I was hurt, not scared, just hurt.  I was disappointed to see how fast and rapid a society can turn, how in our age of modern wonders, the fear of catching anything remotely dangerous can make us look upon all as if lepers.  The parables […]

WHAT WE CHOOSE TO SEE

On days Man does his best to frame And shape our world as dark, Look truthfully, with eyes, and see Goodness all around.   Live the beauty.  Live the good. Watch them return, just as they should. Isn’t it interesting, our world becomes What we choose to see… “Our world becomes what we project and […]