Seeing in the Dark

“When you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it.”  Isaiah 30:20 I’m thinking of the wee, tiny cubs, born blind and helpless in the dark den of winter....

This is Our Story (Bearing the Light)

This is a reading I wrote for the Christmas Eve service at our church a few years back.  Merry Christmas to you and yours and may you be blessed by the Light that shines! In the beginning was the Word      and the word was with God,...

We Are Held in the Dark

“. . . and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by . . .”  Exodus 33:22 My twin boys travel the steep wooden stairs, short legs stretching with a two-year-old’s...

The Kingdom of God is Like a Tree

  What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches. Luke 13:18-19   The large, brown seed sat...

Like Corn in the Night

I grew in those seasons like corn in the night . . . Henry David Thoreau “At two, they’ve grown to half of their full height,” they doctor tells us as our twin boys wriggle and squiggle through their annual appointment.  “It took them two years to grow this much...
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