I believe God sends us messages and signs when we are open to their receiving. I believe he sends rebukes when needed just as he sends encouragement when that is what our spirits need. To be open to the messages is to allow God to speak to the pieces and nature within us that […]
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Faith / Short Story
JOB
Emmanual walked with his angel in place of solitude protected by folds and rollings of the earth, away from any man’s sight, and where only Heaven above could see. The pastures were low grazed save the tops of Indiangrass and bluestem bunches whose course late-season stems were avoided by the ranging cattle leaving their […]
Short Story
TRANSITION
“There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for everything under the heavens. A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. […]
Bible Thought
ECCLESIASTES 3
“There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for everything under the heavens. A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. […]
Bible Thought / Faith
THE FEAST OF SAINT MATTHEW
This past Wednesday was the Feast of Saint Matthew. I learned this when going to a set of readings for a daily mass on USCCB. I won’t pretend to know much about him (only reading the day’s gospel did I remember/learn he was a tax collector), but Saint Matthew is special to me because […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
ASH HEAP
“Precious things make beautiful flames.”—John Steinbeck in letter to Carl Wilhelmson, 1930
Bible Thought
LUKE 22: THE LAST SUPPER, BETRAYAL OF JESUS, AND SIMON PETER’S FAILURE
LUKE 22 Luke 22 tells the occasion of the Last Supper and the betrayal of Jesus in the garden on the Mount of Olives. After the last supper, Jesus goes into the garden and asks of his disciples, “Pray, lest you enter into temptation.” In his own contemplations, Jesus bears the weight of […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
HEART, UNKNOWN
Beyond ”being a light,” bear witness to the same, when seen, in another.
Faith / Short Story
JOHN 12
“Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, keepeth it unto life eternal. If any man minister […]