I did not know it then, but those would become some of my favorite days: spring in a southern town, reading and writing in the light of the world where war once raged but lives now in a quiet peace; where the end of a river runs over shallow rock shelves before spreading and […]
Browsing Category: Journal Pages
Journal Pages
SEEK
“…words are life set down on paper. So seek out the company of others.”—Paulo Coelho, Aleph For most of my lived-life, I ran from that. When drawn to another, I believed something in me was wrong, that an attraction and draw was something ugly—a weakness and perversion within me—and it took the better part […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
CLOUDY DAY SUN
Cloudy days, too, have their sunWhen company is shared;And through the gray and broken rainI’m glad that you were there.
Journal Pages / Poetry
REMEMBER THAT
So many prayed, so many granted,Some ways I could not see;Growing Faith, refining soul—Learning who is “me.” Then spreading gift, sharing the same,To others as they pray:Advancing nearer into LightWith each and every day. We are products of our prayers,Prayed and offered in the past.At least one of them, we live today.I pray: remember that. […]
Journal Pages / Quick Thought
REFLECTION IN ASH
“The presence of the Lord implies liberty, the one follows the other; for the more intimately present the Lord is, the more free is man; that is, in proportion as he is in the love of good and truth he acts freely. Such is the nature of the Lord’s influx by means of angels. […]
Journal Pages / Short Story
REAPER
“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world […]
Journal Pages
A PRAYER IN HOPE
It lived on day in the Second Canticle of Spring, its song voiced by birds, messengers on wing, in proclamation of arrival to new and promised life. She departed on day when the first of spring shone green through recession of winter’s covering snow; appearing in the low bases and shortest blades of wintered […]
Journal Pages / Quick Thought
OUR PART
“There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards Heaven or tilt it towards Hell.”—Jordan B. Peterson There comes a point when we discern the most-wrong way to live is deference—putting off life and denying one’s perceived course […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
SHEPHERD’S VIEW
However lowly we may perceive ourselves to be, made in the image of God, we all possess possibilities for the miraculous, even if it something as simple and common (if that’s how one chooses to see) as raising up those who will continue this existence after we are gone.
Journal Pages
PARALLELS
Is not writing, in its own way, a form of prayer—a messaging of thought, hope, desire, and wish—offered into the universe without promise of response? Maybe, for some words and prayers, we truly seek an answer. Others, maybe to give them is enough—their effect and answer coming in the consequence of contemplation in focusing […]