(more from Thomas Wolf’s “You Can’t Go Home Again”) “Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen. The voice of forest water in the night, a woman’s laughter in the dark, the clean, hard rattle of raked gravel, the cricketing stitch of … [Read more…]
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, … [Read more…]
“Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away. Son, son, you have been mad and drunken, furious and wild, filled with hatred and despair, and all the dark confusions of the soul – but so have we. You found the earth too great for your … [Read more…]
The truth of Christ may never be fully revealed to me. My rational mind may never fully comprehend what He truly is, but the irrational part of it completely holds firm to His life, purpose, and willingness to completely deny Himself and take up a cross. It is something that pulls at my heart every … [Read more…]
I have this romanticist’s notion the ocean is made from the tears of all of us: the myriad of fears and regret of life’s past and memories long forgotten. Each salty atom the remainder of a moment of pain or joy; some portion of our soul left as a reminder of time. In my morosity … [Read more…]
There are many arguments for and against predestination. There are also many explanations of it. How can I have free will if God has predestined my life? Predestination does not mean God determines the steps of my life. It merely means God knows my life. This is because God is both the Beginning and End … [Read more…]
It is impossible to imagine the essence of everything; words that draw a universe of light and sound, emitting forth the truest beauty and grandeur that even God must acknowledge as being a faint resemblance of Himself; something akin to the solitude of the poetic Void that enshrouds the Allness of the Infinitesimal—a time as … [Read more…]
For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom … [Read more…]
Ephesians 4: 1-13 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one … [Read more…]