Continuous Living

Continuous Living

“Anxiety turns us toward courage, because the other alternative is despair.” Paul Tillich I’ve claimed “seasonal affective disorder” for years, and that may be so, but I’m starting to realize it’s not only summer to fall that...
Tireless Messenger

Tireless Messenger

To try to be brave is to be brave.” George MacDonald Today we are outside on our driveway blowing bubbles. It’s only May, and the leaves are freshly born and green, but already, now that they are here, they are foreboding of fall. I am safest in March,...
Writing on My Birthday

Writing on My Birthday

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit – Life! -Emily Dickinson It’s my 42nd birthday today. I have no fancy plans. It’s not the cheeriest birthday poem, but I can’t help but...
Last Words

Last Words

“Low-sunk life imagines itself weary of life, but it is death, not life, it is weary of.”  George MacDonald “So much wasted time.” These were one man’s final words as he lay dying. Such sad final words. Peoples’ last words are often...
On Introspection

On Introspection

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?” Virginia Woolf There are a few reasons I haven’t written here lately. I’ve...
Benediction

Benediction

The world lives by the blessing of God and of the righteous and thus has a future. Blessing means laying one’s hands on something and saying, Despite everything, you belong to God. This is what we do with the world that inflicts such suffering on us. We do not abandon...