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Time’s Fullness
This sonnet is first in a new series from the book of Nehemiah. It finds its inspiration in both Nehemiah 1 and Galatians 4:4,5. I was particularly struck by the moment word of the destruction of Jerusalem’s walls and gates reached Nehemiah. He writes that he “sat down and wept”…
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Dwell in Me
This sonnet is based on: Ephesians 1:3-14. God: Father, Christ, and Spirit blessed be, Whose embrace enfolds with the Trinity, Who with every blessing blesses me. Father, before I was, you loved me Not because I was a saint or lovely, But to make me holy, you chose me. Jesus,…
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You Who Thirst
It was a dull Autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. She was crying because they had been bullying her…. C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair Jill Pole is one of my favorite characters in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. Introduced in The Silver Chair‘s first lines,…
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Unless I See
Today is the feast day of St Thomas whose doubting has earned from some a moniker of skepticism. In my estimation, his honesty has comforted and encouraged, but even more so, Jesus’ compassion for Thomas leaves me full and so very grateful. In John 20:25 we read, “So the other…
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New Creation
“Neither [this] nor [that] means anything; what counts is a new creation.” Galatians 6:15 Where do I put all the broken things Which once adorned my blessed life — The furniture of life lived right? Where do I put these things? Where do I put the world gone mad —…
Backward Mutters 