In the bleak pre-dawn, I use my fingers to count anxieties and losses, but as morning arrives, I find my hands tickling the Child. I make faces at the fragrant Baby Jesus, gently rub the head of the Little Buddha nursing, and mark the calendar so I’ll remember when to plant potatoe...
89 I will sing continually[c] about the Lord’s faithful deeds;to future generations I will proclaim your faithfulness.[d]2 For I say, “Loyal love is permanently established;[e]in the skies you set up your faithfulness.”[f]3 The Lord said,[g]“I have made a covenan...
the script after Prince told him his father once said the same words to him, the lasting image it leaves on me is an artist taking a cherished memory of rarely-expressed parental devotion, and returning it gift-wrapped in a love language to touch the heart of his devout bible-quoting ...
In my last post I was expressing my frustration with trying to update my blog. I’d changed themes and colours, but my widgets on the right and left sides got shifted around and half were lost. Well, it took me awhile but I sorted out how to move the left ones from the right back...
I am ready to offer them. In the Bible, God “sleeps,”“wakes up,”“is angered,”“walks,” and has a “throne of cherubim.” Yet when has God ever been subject to emotion? When do you ever hear that God has a bodily being? This is a nonfactual, mental picture. We have used...
in THE METHOD they used to teach in the Actor’s studio) to his madness. A working class American in 1776 was nothing like the Civil War officers we remember from Ken Burns, those eloquent West Point graduates raised on Shakespeare and the King James Bible who wrote letters back home in ...
19 So write the things you have seen and the things that are and the things that will happen later. 20 This is what the seven stars and the seven lights made of gold mean that you saw in My right hand. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches. The seven lights are ...