Feb 25, 2021 | authenticity, Christianity, church, Church Planting, Community, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, healing, Hope, Jesus, Lent, Living Spiritually, Spiritual Formation, worship |
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m rhythmically impaired. I stumbled (literally) on this fact in Navy Boot Camp. Marching was the approved way to move large groups of clueless recruits from barracks to mess hall to classroom and back. But marching was a battle for me....
Feb 18, 2021 | Christianity, COVID-19, creation, dreams, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God, God Sightings, healing, Health, Hope, Jesus, Lent, Nature photography, photography, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized |
Reading Time: 2 minutesA WINTER PSALM As winter yearns for spring, As a frozen river anticipates thaw, O Lord, We wait on you, Longing for release From this illness, loss, Isolation, and uncertainty. Their cold claws tear at us. Tears form icicles on our faces,...
Feb 11, 2021 | authenticity, Christianity, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, Health, Hope, Jesus, Living Spiritually, Nature photography, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized |
Reading Time: 5 minutes The last time I saw Isabelle alive she was in the hospital after a heart attack. She was in her 90s. Life support machines clicked and wheezed around her. “Eugene, I’ve lived a long enough. My husband’s long passed. No reason to prolong...
Jan 28, 2021 | Art, Bible, Christianity, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, God Sightings, Jesus, Living Spiritually, photography, Politics, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutes I believe in poetry. But I’d forgotten. The last few months of our pandemic dominated, politically divided lives made me forget. Then just as it seemed life couldn’t get worse, it did. Our President stood amidst a maelstrom of fear,...
Jan 13, 2021 | Christianity, Christmas, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God, God Sightings, grace, healing, Health, Hope, Jesus |
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn December 31, 1977 I sat fidgeting with the buttons on my flannel shirt in The Red-Headed-Wildflower’s parent’s living room. I was nervous because I hadn’t seen her since I dropped out of high school and joined the Navy in ’74. Making the two...
Dec 17, 2020 | Advent, Bible, Christianity, Christmas, COVID-19, Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God Sightings, loneliness, photography, Spiritual Formation |
Reading Time: 5 minutesGhosts have haunted many of my Christmases. Not in the terrifying way Charles Dicken’s ghosts haunted Scrooge. But much more subtle, a shadow I can’t quite identify passing over my heart. I think the haunting started on Christmas day in 1957. My...
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