Take Care of the Birds (a Poem)

If you take care of the birds, you take care of most of the big problems in the world.               – Biologist Thomas Lovejoy My advice to pastors and others who care  too much is this:  hang a bird feeder...

My Daughter, Annie Dillard, and I

My twelve-year-old daughter says there are four eggs in the nest outside her bedroom window.  I believe her, because she’s who one sits and watches, keeping an eye on the world around her.  // On the night after the Parkland Florida shooting, my oldest...

Just Beyond (on Spring Snow and the Kingdom of God)

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash If the weather-watchers are correct, we’re due for snow tomorrow and possibly more on Sunday.  Snow in March isn’t unusual, but it’s definitely unwelcome.  Arriving just as the world starts to sing its wake-up...

The Road is Wide, The Rain is Falling

Cold rain turned his thin, white t-shirt translucent as he bent his body, like an umbrella, over the double stroller.  The newborn baby cried and he cradled it against his chest with one hand while rooting in a diaper bag with the other.  The girl, a...

A Hare, A Shovel, A Pale Blue Envelope

(photo via Unsplash: Gary Bendig) I walked out the back door and circled around toward the front of the house one recent Saturday morning, looking for the shovel.  I suspected it had been left leaning against the porch after a recent gardening project.  A...
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