I am on a heron search. Ever since that day when a great blue heron rose through mist on the roadside pond, immense wings beating with a slow, steady rhythm, flew parallel to my window for several beats, then ascended with a powerful surge over the car, out of my line of vision.
Those few strong […]
Reading Henri Nouwen’s book, Here and Now: Living in the Present, I am pierced by his use of the wagon wheel as a metaphor for our life with God. He writes, “These wheels help me to understand the importance of a life lived from the center. When I move along the rim, I can […]
“The most frequent commandment given in scripture is so simple, so plain: ‘do not be afraid.’ And it is so hard to practice, so hard to model, so hard to live.”
Thom Shuman, Occasional Sightings of the Gospel
I am most likely to shed my well-worn cloak of fear over Joel’s future when I take […]
It’s Monday morning. After an early morning trip to the chiropractor (my lower back has been killing me), I’m sitting at my desk (almost pain free, thank God!). What to do first? Get out my young adult novel, which I haven’t worked on since May? Start the search for an agent for my completed y.a. […]
Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life
Ursula LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea
The thief comes to rob and destroy
only to lift the lid on a well of wisdom
buried deep within your soul.
First you cry, then you listen,
let Jesus hold your feet
in His hands,
let His light
illuminate the fear-filled places,
gather friends to […]