Reading Time: 3 minutes So many stories about Mary the mother of Jesus portray her as angelically strong and a saint. But as a mother and widow how did she feel as she watched her son being crucified? My poem Mary’s Loss attempts to dig into her feelings of despair.
Reading Time: 3 minutes When something is made common or even popular, it often loses its meaning and power. There are many examples of …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett exchanged over five hundred letters before their kindred passion for words and writing blossomed into …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Who are you? I’m a fan of the Enneagram and all things self-discovery. But quipping, “I’m a Seven or an …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes I believe in poetry. But I’d forgotten. The last few months of our pandemic dominated, politically divided lives made …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ghosts have haunted many of my Christmases. Not in the terrifying way Charles Dicken’s ghosts haunted Scrooge. But much more …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Silence is often the language of love.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jesus understood my pain and doubts. He did not answer them with logic but with love.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The most powerful word God can speak to us if we withdraw and listen is, “Repent.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes There sat the lost, the found, the diseased, the dying, the divorced, the prosperous, the poor, the married, the single, the pretenders, the sexually abused, the jobless, the parents whose beloved had committed suicide, seekers, finders, sleepers, critics, young, old, hopeful, hopeless. The usual.