Shedding

Coco is shedding her winter coat in great, black clumps that glob onto the living room carpet and blow like tumbleweeds under the kitchen’s ceiling fan.  Twice a day now, we are vacuuming our rugs, emptying the canister between runs, watching matted dog hair and...

Communion (A Seminarian’s Perspective)

During Seminary, another student and I, interned at a tiny, historic, Methodist church in New Jersey.  She was Methodist, I was not; but we were both welcomed into the fold in equal measure.  The congregation was small and aged and the thing they appreciated...

Love That Carries

He’s tall and burly, like someone who played football in high school.  Gray-haired, with some extra weight around the middle, he carries his daughter to school wrapped in a blanket every day through the long winter months. I saw him this morning, as I do...

Love is Vertigo (a falling, floundering thing)

(Photo Source) (To celebrate my new web page and in honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m re-sharing some old posts this weeks focusing on the topic of love.  Today’s post was shared on Valentine’s Day 2013. Stop back tomorrow for another look at...

Winter Blues: I Want to Seek, I Want to Find

Christ in the Wilderness – Consider the Lilies by Stanley Spencer The trees hold tufts of snow, cold, white, cotton balls lifted toward a pale blue winter sky.  Yesterday I painted three canvases.  I have no idea what I’m doing, paint-wise, but bold...
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