Grief is a fickle thing. For the past few weeks I have felt the fog over mind and body lifting, at least at the corners. I still have some very dark days, but the light days have been brighter and more frequent. Then the holidays arrived. A nebulous gloom began to fall once my house […]
A few years ago I wrote a Christmas children’s stage play that has since been produced in a number of churches. In the opening scene, after a choir of pint-sized angels sing “Glory to God in the Highest,” three shepherds have a conversation in which they all agree they don’t believe in angels, didn’t see […]
Lately my life has been like sitting under a canopy out in the middle of the desert, beside a dirt road. Time ekes by very slowly as I wait for the bus to come by to pick me up and take me away from there, but the bus doesn’t come. So I sit and wait, […]
December 22, 2010 It’s been written throughout the centuries that Advent is a season of hopes fulfilled (albeit misunderstood), and expectant waiting for the ultimate outcome to be manifested. It’s an appropriate time of year to see the fulfillment of my dream to start a website and the beginning of a learning curve as I […]
December 20, 2010 Hope for the Christian is anchored in the Christmas promise, foretold by angels who visited shepherds keeping watch in their fields by night. The result of this heavenly proclamation was that the shepherds went in search of the proclaimed Christ Child on whom peace depends. They went gladly, even though it probably […]