The Original, Returning
Reading Time: 3 minutes When my children were very small we lived on a farm. It had an old blue farmhouse that overlooked a lovely pond teeming with snapping turtles, fish, and croaking bullfrogs. Winding around the corner of this pond was an old dirt road that the farmer’s noisy tractors would rumble down…
A Bright Reminder
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever sat in silence around a campfire, mesmerized by the dancing flames? No one notices exactly when the quietness ensues, but the talking and laughter cease and the only motion is the fire, the only sound the one its tongues produce. Suddenly you notice as if awaking from…
The Veiling Of Our Souls
The Gracious Goad of Logic
A Beautiful Book
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 1958, the quirky little party game Mad Libs was introduced to the American public. The premise was simple, each page of the booklet contained a short story in which several words had been removed and replaced with blanks. Beneath the blanks were the type of words, ie, noun, verb,…
So The Story Can Be Told
Reading Time: 4 minutes Shortly after the wheels left the ground, I connected my phone to the plane’s inflight entertainment options and scrolled through the list of available movies. This COVID-19 virus has poked its pointy spheres into every part of our lives, and the paltry selection I discovered now was no exception. Hollywood’s…
From One Blood Every Nation
Reading Time: 3 minutes A crimson blotch expands across the villain’s crisp white shirt. He glances down with the stunned recognition that the hero’s bullet has finally found its mark and his life will soon be ending. He futilely presses his hand against the spreading stain, but he knows his life is over and…
A Heartless Trinity, Pt. 3
Reading Time: 3 minutes An Impoverishing Potentate This is the third and final installment in this brief series of posts exploring the counterfeit and heartless trinity that has largely supplanted the true and living God in the hearts of so many here in the West. We have looked at the gods of Knowledge and…