“…Autumn was different. It was the season she remembered, when life of the past shone in different ways, in colors hidden by the green of summers lived, illuminating the richness and a difference always present beneath the summer colors viewed. You didn’t see it in the summer, but it shone when the green gave […]
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Journal Pages / Short Story
QUIET DREAMER
“Stay steadfast and patient. You are moving towards your vision even if you can’t see it yet. All is working in your favor. Everything is slowly but surely coming together. All is well.”—Lukas Notes, September 15, 2020 “Don’t spend too much time explaining yourself,” spoke the old man to the young. “If people can’t […]
Journal Pages
RECOGNIZED
“‘To be loved is to be looked at in such a manner that the reality of cognition is disclosed.’ A Christian who doesn’t merely see but looks at another communicates to that person that he is being recognized as a human being in an impersonal world of objects, as someone and not something.”—Brennan Manning, “The […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
THY WILL
THY WILL:I read this passage today from “The Importance of Being Foolish,” by Brennan Manning. It made me stop and reflect about my own manifested tribulations sometimes mistaken for “spiritual growth.” Even when we’re growing, sometimes it’s still difficult to separate our own pride, desire for security (certainties), material happiness, and power to control our […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
EYES ANEW
“Bring new eyes to a world or even new lenses, and presto—new world.”—John Steinbeck, “The Winter of our Discontent”