Backward Mutters

  • A Parent’s Target Number

    A Parent’s Target Number

    Yesterday was World Diabetes Day. My youngest’s Type One diagnosis eight years ago has brought so much change. The grueling management of the disease not withstanding, the T1D community and our friends and family have been of such immeasurable support and encouragement. Nevertheless, it is a looming gravitational force in…

  • God’s Final Word

    God’s Final Word

    One of the safe things about salvation is that the final word has been spoken. Not only is Jesus the last word of God, but Jesus so fulfills the work of God that nothing more need or can be said. Here in Hebrews 1, we see that “he [Jesus] sat…

  • Just So

    Just So

    This poem or spoken word piece had its start with a sentence I heard in a meeting I recently attended. I cannot recall the specific context or who spoke it, but the sentence captured my imagination, and I wrote it down. I believe the subject of the conversation was what…

  • Bless God

    Bless God

    Psalm 134 is the last of the collection of songs in the Bible’s book of Psalms called the Songs of Ascent. These songs serve as a guide or a map of the life of faith, whose destination is the presence of God. The psalms were sung by pilgrims on their…

  • What Fellowship?

    What Fellowship?

    I am continuing my current project of writing a series of poems based on the Songs of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). The Songs of Ascent are a collection of songs intended to guide the pilgrim in their upward ascent to God. They are traveling songs meant to encourage, challenge, and console…