Reverie for wild places.
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Journal Pages
MEASURE OF A SOUL
We will hurt people. We will help others. Which we’ve done, and to whom, we will never fully know. This is piece and ownership to living among world of competing hearts. What one wants, so too does another—whether time, object, or something else. When my time in this world is done, I pray […]
Faith / Journal Pages
THROUGH THE DECADES
I remember, as a child, they were always there. They would save us a pew as my mother and father worked to ready my sister and I for mass, and we arrived “right on time” or “just a little late”—same as I do with our children now. My grandmother and grandfather were there; […]
Short Story
FEATHERS
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” “Oh,” she said. “Oh.” “You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can’t read.” “It ain’t just that.” She spoke almost in a whisper. “I wadn’t aware that words could hold so much. […]
Short Story
WHEN LOVE DIED
It was the autumn love died; when late summer drought browned the pastures premature and early frost killed the leaves of the woods that fell without color or splendor in transition. Bleak winter followed: colorless and dry until late snows fell and stayed heavy on the earth. Beneath, the world was changing. […]
Journal Pages / Short Story
MORNING GUEST
He sat again with his angel again, resting at kitchen table with steam of coffee rising as sign and incense between vision of the two. “I’ve been reading Deuteronomy,” he shared. “I don’t think I’ve ever read it before, but the review and words of Moses at his end; his reiteration to honor […]
Journal Pages / Short Story
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 […]
Bible Thought
LUKE 11: “ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE” THE DIVISION OF SELF, AND THE LIGHT WITHIN US
LUKE 11 Luke 11 contains two strong parables. The first speaks to the importance of prayer and being sincere in our askings to God. Jesus speaks of knocking on the door of a friend in the night and how, if we keep asking, our friend will come to our aid. Jesus speaks too, that […]