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WITH MORNING SUN

                He sat with the morning sun, with the cricket songs of late summer season that played day and night within surrounding fields.  He sat with the vines, wet in after-rain, as droplets traced, beaded and fell downward from low tendrils and once-trumpet lily blooms brought to fruit by bees and beaks of hummingbirds drawn […]

ECCLESIASTES

ECCLESIASTES                 Today is a detour from the Gospel of Saint Luke.  Reading Luke one chapter at a time and trying to break it down into thoughts, I needed a break and redirection.  For this, I went back to one of my favorite books in the Old Testament: Ecclesiastes.                 For Ecclesiastes, I’m not breaking […]

LUKE 10: THE GOOD SAMARITAN

LUKE 10                 Luke 10 begins with Jesus appointing seventy-two disciples and sending them out to begin preaching and serving God.  He tells them, “Go: Behold I send you as lambs among the wolves,” and instructs his disciples to extend good will and blessings to all they encounter.  If accepted, the blessings will remain with […]

MAGIC

          “Life needs a little Magic, don’t you think?  Maybe It isn’t real, all imagined; or maybe there’s something to It.  Maybe we manifest It, or maybe we sense and allow It to show and live through us.  Whatever It is, even if It’s nothing, I’d rather live in belief in Its possibility than a […]

OASIS IN THE SKY

                They climbed a switchback trail ascending through stands of aspen and lodgepole pines until line where trees stunted then gave way to snow and lichen spread over rock scree and solid granite slopes.                  They set camp beside an alpine lake within a cradle of surrounding peaks that shone grey in day and changed […]