I have concrete proof of God and His enabling grace. It is this: I’ve often read how early morning devotional time is necessary to anchor your spirit in Christ and prepare for the day. And I have often resolved to give God some time in this way–and just as often as I’ve resolved, I’ve failed. [...]
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4AM!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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Addendum
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Never mind. Dickens and Dostoyevsky can wait. I can’t afford any distraction.
“Each of the builders wore his sword at his side while he worked…”
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once I come back to writing after it’s been quite awhile, I always feel like I ought to catch you up on what I’ve been doing while I’ve been Not writing. Even though if you’re reading this, you probably already know. Anyway. In September we moved out of our Little White House and I totaled [...]
Sonnet 74 by John Donne
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp’d town to another due,
Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should [...]
Patience, Pruning, and the End of the Rope: Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
(8/25/09)This follow-up is taking a long time to come out. It was easy enough to write out the appearance of things–well do I know that in the eyes of the world I am on a downward spiral.
(9/2)Actually, more than a downward spiral: simply by taking the Bible literally on what it says about riches and [...]
Patience, Pruning, and the End of the Rope: Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Everybody has a plan. They want to go to this school, pursue that career, climb Mt. Everest, write a novel, learn to dance, retire at 55 to take up painting, and/or collect all of the state quarters.
I don’t. I don’t have a single plan. When I look into the future, it’s one vast, substantial–Void. It’s [...]
More Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any [...]
from “Life Together” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spiritual love proves itself in that everything it says and does commends Christ. It will not seek to move others by all too personal, direct influence, by impure interference in the life of another. . .It will rather meet the other person with the clear Word of God and be ready to leave him alone [...]
A lighter bill of fare…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last night was the night of Weird Dreams.
Ex.: I dreamt that I was back at my childhood home–the dearest and best beloved spot in the world–and all of its greenness had faded and been bleached by drought. Also, I think I was about twelve years old again. But, defying all reason, the lake was still [...]
