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BUT HUMAN
“Woe even to those of praiseworthy life if you put their life under scrutiny and remove mercy. But because you do not search our faults with rigour, we confidently hope for some place with you. If anyone lists his true merits to you, what is he enumerating before you but your gifts? If only […]
THE GOOD SAMARITAN (OCTOBER 26, 2022)
Have you ever lived a Holy Moment, a moment when unexpected and unannounced—but suddenly, undeniably, a weight of moment and presence? I lived one in an AutoZone today. I had made a mess of a motor-service and needed oil-dry to clean our farm shop floor. Maybe it’s funny, or fitting, how God appears […]
MYSTERIES
He tried to write but nothing came, and in early morning of day, he walked outside, into world. The rising sun covered fast and low behind moving sheet of clouds. Above and to west, sky was layered in gray and lavender wash as if broad-waved brushstrokes from south and into north. Within the tapestry […]
PIECE AND PURPOSE
“YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE!” my mind screams as I watch them together: my son and his music teacher, as they laugh with personality energies at music jokes I do not understand. I am happy for his excitement and for him to have someone able to enrich both a talent and the enjoyment […]
TWELVE-YEAR OLD GIRL
She is twelve years old, wears Under Armor shorts instead of Umbros—a difference of brands and icons across generation’s change. Her brown hair holds hues of red that express daily ever more to her mother’s, and when weather and air are right, they wave naturally without effort, care, or work. She is smart, […]