Backward Mutters

  • Christmas Counting

    Christmas Counting

    This is a long post, but it recalls a long day which has lasted fourteen years so far. This week marks the fourteenth anniversary of my youngest daughter’s T1D diagnosis (aka “diaversary”). Fourteen years ago, progress to a cure seemed so close that we were told that a cure was…

  • Grapes

    Grapes

    This is an ekphrastic poem drawing its inspiration from the art of artist, Adah Freeman, who is a member of the congregation in which I minister . She is such a gifted artist and has taken up the theme of grapes from Numbers 13 in which spies are sent into…

  • Slingshot

    Slingshot

    Through the Advent season, I am working with a local artist who is painting abstract pieces which correspond to the sermon series I am preaching on. The first of that series was on the young shepherd David’s defeat of Goliath as found in 1 Samuel 17. In the project, I am…

  • Listen

    Listen

    Some words which came while sitting in the garage before a fall rain. You listen, and you know it means something, But just what it means has not yet formed or Settled; You’re tempted to think it’s nothing, But you linger a moment at the door. And there in that…

  • All You Can Do

    All You Can Do

    In her talk about her documentary on Wendell Berry entitled, Look and See, Laura Dunn records Wendell Berry who says, “We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you…