I read to my daughter last night. It was a book we had not shared together in many years; a children’s book that, like most beautiful stories, says something more and different as we grow and learn its telling in different life lights. It told of a man who loved books, who began […]
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Journal Pages / Quick Thought
THE PASSION
“But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
SMALL THINGS
Small things mean more than we imagine. Be grateful for when, and in whom, they show.
Journal Pages / Quick Thought
BANKS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK
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 […]
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. […]