Backward Mutters

  • Success

    Success

    Sometimes poems come quickly, and you don’t know from where or sometimes fully comprehend what they even meaning. (This sounds like a disclaimer). All the same, here it is. It must be that people are called to succeed By the way that they pull up and leave, Run from sadness,…

  • More

    More

    “Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But…

  • Heavy Emptiness

    Heavy Emptiness

    The heavy emptiness: One’s lightness of being, The loss of substance and purpose, The clarity of vision for the day and week. And then one’s lost Which is an eternity of loss or at least An indefinite hole in the future. The empty arms that held and hugged Now holding…

  • Just So

    Just So

    This month is Pastor Appreciation Month. This was written a couple of years ago after I heard someone talk about leaders and how they liked them ‘just so’. The line caught my attention and rolled around in my head for a few days. Oftentimes there is an attempt to position…

  • Mere Mortals

    Mere Mortals

    In his sermon, “The Weight of Glory,” C.S. Lewis has this to say about those people with whom we come into contact and who are themselves immortals. He writes, “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal….Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is…