Backward Mutters

  • The Old Becomes New

    This is the third in a series of sonnets based on John’s first letter to the churches. This one is based on 1John 2:7-14 though it is particularly based on verses 7-8 to read: 7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had…

  • The Narrow Door I

    I will be working on a project to write a series of sonnets based on this passage from Luke 13:22-30. Our human sensibilities oftentimes find these passages which speak to the exclusion of the Kingdom of God highly unsavory. And in our age in which the individual is the “sovereign…

  • Light

    This is a sonnet based on 1John 1:5-10 which reads This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we…

  • Joy Complete

    Based on: 1 John 1:1-4 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—  2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify…

  • We Had Hoped

    Based on Luke 24:21 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. When death closes the door and hope is shut Behind a stone — sealed from every light, When the…