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The Night is O’er
My book, The Night is O’er: A Collection of Christmas Eve Stories is available on Amazon. The Night is O’er contains many of the Christmas Eve stories delivered at Grace Presbyterian Church‘s Candlelight Services.The Night is O’er was originally published on Grace Presbyterian Church
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Indian Summer
A sonnet for the one with whom I’ve run the years. https://audioboom.com/posts/5250212-indian-summer The sun’s heat on my arms lands just when fall’s Breeze blows it away, like summer’s spent leaves; What is left of the spring, mockingbird calls, Holds on to summer though the end it perceives. We sit in…
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Words
Just a quick sonnet on the power of words to lift and illuminate the heart and my own personal need for inspiration. These words, winding articulation, Breathe thoughts, spell into meaning, Undo by backward mutters of incantation, A serif’s stroke, familiar’s dingy film erasing. Through this singing one is lifted…
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Wisdom’s Call
This sonnet is based upon Proverbs 5:7-23 in which Wisdom’s first attribute is loving faithfulness (Proverbs 3:5,6). The loving faithfulness of Wisdom is likened to a young man’s love for his wife. By contrast the young man is warned away from Folly, the adulteress. In the sonnet I make use of Song of…
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The Good Shepherd
I think about leadership a good bit from day to day. I probably think about it a bit more in recent days. It helps me to be reminded of the kind of leaders we need and be encouraged by the kind we have. This is a little poetic meditation on…
Backward Mutters 