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Take This Bread
An older post, from the archives... for this season of Lent, for Hope...
A New Year’s Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
A New Year's Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the...
The Beginning
I hear the music, the familiar carols and melodies. And we sing it again, I sing it - "O Come, O Come Emmanuel." When will he come? When will he come to this world that is continuously full of the grievous and the painful? I watch the battery drain on this laptop and...
Unwrapped
At the cusp of an awaited day, during this season of Advent, we await the coming one. And maybe you are waiting, too, on something -- perhaps some news, or something to happen. I am waiting, too. As much as I would like to know the future and God’s plans for so many...
Tangled Mess of Lights
I mess up again. And again. (Source: Microsoft Office image) Each year the story of opening up the box of Christmas lights is a different one. This year, upon opening the box of Christmas lights, I find a random mix of mis-matched strands of lights with only half of...
Removing the Grit
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." ~Michelangelo He comes in with tools of various kinds. The tools don't look like the usual types, but they do a similar sort of work as a carpenter or sculptor. Work begins on the project. Parts...
The Most Wonderful…..
Tis the season... It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.... It could also be... the most stressful the most lonely the most difficult financially the most busy the most tiring the most misguided.... Stores are decorated Homes are decorated With ornaments, wreaths,...
Give Thanks
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
Unshakeable
A firm place For stubbing toe and A soft place To lay head... Bewitched paradoxed ground with Reeds not bowed by wind. * * Sharing with Jennifer at #TellHisStory and Lyli at Thought-Provoking Thursday
When Doing Good Means Receiving the Good
"You will need to be on bed rest," the doctor said. Actually, the news was better than I thought it would be. I was anticipating several months of bed rest in the hospital-- so several months of bed rest at home because of complications while expecting child number...
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