Of Blanket Forts and Friendship
Reading Time: 3 minutes When we find our tune is the harmony to another’s song, and recognize the sameness in our difference, we are bumping into the divine.
An Eloquent World
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of my favorite scenes in Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia takes place in the second book (published order, of course), as Lucy wakes and walks among the softly swaying trees of the moonlit forest. She knows the subtle rustling in the birches’ silvery leaves is the stirring of sleeping souls…
The Unseen Moving
Reading Time: 3 minutes “He doesn’t much care for outward appearances,” proclaims the gust that wrecks your hair. “He heals the broken-hearted,” says the breeze that dries your tears. The moaning through the mountain pass says “He understands your pain.” The slumping kite that suddenly rises on the wind reminds us that he sends the feeble strength just when they need it most. And He is never late. All these things and so much more, the moving air affirms.
Some Thoughts on the Current State of My Memories
Reading Time: 4 minutes For some reason, recently, my memories have seemed like travelers, standing on the platform of a train station, as my train rolls slowly past. I used to see my memories as stationary scenes, like watching a TV show. Now it’s as though I’m moving past them. They are close, and…
Balancing The Clouds
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have always loved clouds. As a boy, I remember wishing I could scale the fluffy cliffs of the mighty Cumulus cloud, though I didn’t know its name at the time. Funny how I never really considered what the surface of the cloud would actually feel like beneath my feet….
A Certain Kind Of Hope
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even as He gives us all things to enjoy, He means to stimulate our vision of the unseen by them, not obscure our sight.
A Common Incarnation
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Tis the season! It’s the season for many things. Increasingly, it is the season of heightened materialism and over-commercialization. But for Christians, it is the pre-eminent time of the year we remember the first advent of our Lord. We recall in songs and hymns His birth in a manger, His…
The Weight Of Things
Reading Time: 3 minutes How much do you weigh? That’s rhetorical; I don’t really want to know. What I mean is, why do you weigh that much? No, I don’t mean the fast food and donuts, I mean why do we have any weight at all? The simple answer, of course, is that the…
Watching The Mind of God
Reading Time: 3 minutes I sat out on my deck reading one quiet summer morning. From the corner of my eye, I caught a Blue Jay flitting between the houses. He had just landed on the gutter of the house behind ours. He stood there for a few moments and then spread his wings…
“Et tu, Bruté?”
Reading Time: 4 minutes He was late for his meeting with the Senate. His wife’s troubling dreams through the night had detained him to the point of tardiness. Perhaps it was the light of the full March moon that had kept her awake and prompted her imagination to run wild. Perhaps it was something…
