I know there's no “autoreply” for a blog, but….Here's a question to ponder: In Psalm 51, David says that God doesn't want burnt offerings from him, but a broken and contrite heart.I've always taken that for granted, until I read what Spurgeon pointed...
I received my first award for writing in grade school, for an essay about fire prevention. (Made me scared to death of open flames for years, but that's another story.) When I was in high school, one of my teachers entered my poetry into some state-wide contests,...
TRAMRIDE This thin thin wireSways in generous bulging arcsFrom breeze to breezeLike a child's jumpropeOr the rippling undulationsOf a lustrous serpentMoving through thick waters.We are suspended underThis snakeropeAnd we are pulled alongBy it. There is no escape:The...
Perhaps you find in your relationship with the Lord that intimacy brings its own kinds of tension, as this poem demonstrates.The Communion MatchOh, body of Christ!Oh, body of Christ!Oh blood-filled poresOh bones wrenched out of socketsBy its own newly-paralytic...
Here's a poem about the relationship of icons to linguistic representations.Yours is the language of maps,The tracing out with light-veined fingerThe green veins of mountainsStroking softly, just with the padsOf the sides of your thumbsThe ochre lushness of a...