Browsing Category: Journal Pages

FROM A DARKNESS

               There was a time in life when all I saw in me was darkness.  I damned myself beyond deserving and, in doing, denied and impaired much good I was able, still, to live.                Such time is past, and I better see now—in this human condition—we all have our shadow-points as well as illuminations. […]

MATTERS OF THE HEART

               Love is funny, and we learn this as we grow; maturing and becoming more comfortable with its truths rather than misled in ideal.                In the end, love is not about ourselves at all; but is that which we wish and will for others.                 Our only controlling is in that, of it, we […]

AN INVESTMENT

               This morning, I went to mass with my youngest son.  Of those that were up, only he desired to go; and so we went. When it came time for the offering, I drew out my wallet uncertain and having little clue what might be there.                Five dollars, all ones; I grabbed them all […]

THROUGH A DISTANCE

               There was rejuvenation in the sun; in the songs of birds on wind, and, too, in breeze through woods; in the miles underfoot, breath finding and settling into rhythm, in the strain of beginning run and the loosening and settling in of body the longer that you kept; how mind matched with flesh and […]