Do we owe others explanation for our words? Should we be ready and willing to say more than what stories state and express? Should we, or have right to, tell when another serves as catalyst or inspiration to a thought; or is such intrusion and offense? Without invitation, are we wrong […]
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Bible Thought / Faith
HEBREWS 13
“Let…charity…abide in you. And hospitality do not forget; for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels…”—Hebrews 13: 1-2 I read these words to end a morning moment, and as it ends, I wonder: how often are we visited in this life? How often, unknowing—or through veil of partial […]
Journal Pages
INVESTMENTS
I wrote two letters this morning. Before beginning, I reflected on how little I’ve invested into friendships and people that hold meaning in my life. In distractions of the immanent, the more important fell away—never pressing, always there but forgotten in the background—until purposeful consideration returns such back to front and sight. This […]
Short Story
SOFT INCESSANCE
They sat outside at table under sky of changing mood. Gone were the still winds and clear sky of before as front approached, grey and lavender depths of layered watercolor sky with wisps and tails of rain arced in curl by winds in undertow beneath. Fallen leaves, dried and curled, scattered in scratch across […]
Journal Pages
WRITING LETTERS
I’ve returned to an old practice: writing letters. There were times and years in my life when I lived distant and apart from many that I loved. I never said much over a phone, and the emotions, thoughts, and affinities I held within never seemed to speak—unless I wrote them down. Back then, I […]
Short Story
EVANESCENCE
“And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake, And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood: and the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken […]
Short Story
STARLINK
Ryan and Emma lain together on flatbed of truck, the cool of autumn’s arrival drawing and keeping one another near in arms and hold of the other. They stared on the clear night sky as softening songs of crickets sang the last of their cantos before frost’s season of silence. They stared on […]
Short Story
MARKED PAGE
He drank himself blind wallowing in relived histories of sin. His mind and senses replayed the past, seeing and feeling all again: war, murder, the soft pull of a trigger and the heart-skip, soul-thump of dropped ordinance in close range; each murder-song of heavy and medium machine guns firing, the light crack near and […]
Bible Thought
EPHESIANS 5: AWAY FROM DARKNESS AND THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE
EPHESIANS 5 In Ephesians 5, Saint Paul begins with a call to check our spirits, our inclinations, desires, and those with whom we associate. “Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us…fornication, and all uncleanness, […]
Bible Thought
EPHESIANS 4
EPHESIANS 4 Something I value in the Letters of Saint Paul is that, unlike the Gospels which are tellings of Jesus’ acts and life, the letters of Saint Paul speak and display the effect and spirit Jesus’ touch has on the living and acts of someone who is completely human. As one who once […]