Shaft of sunlight on a yard bordered by towering trees
These lithe, towering trees would dance wildly in the wind.

Cradled or caught?

  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:December 11, 2023

What I learned from a bent tree - cradled, or caught, by another tree.

The no-leaven life

  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:May 8, 2025

He who died in our behalf is risen. As we trust solely in his broken body and the new covenant in his blood, we too become alive in ways we could never otherwise hope to be.

Faded black-and-white of four Union soldiers from the Seventy-Seventh Pennsylvania regiment (with one on horseback), outside Shiloh Church at the time of the battle
“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.”

Shiloh

  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.” April…

ROAR

"Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight. At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more. When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death. And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again."

Looking up

Mini-post. It's hard to look up when you're lying prostrate. Sometimes, it seems impossible. If confusion, hurt and anger are pummeling you without mercy, you may be very tempted, when you do look up, to shake your fist.

A view of the Dead Sea, with palm trees growing in the foreground, on the Israeli side, and in the background, the mountains of Jordan
The Dead Sea

“The Diamond Turns”

  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:October 7, 2025

For two hours, I looked up at the night sky from my seat under a palm tree in the lowest place on earth - and I sang to the Lord with the nations.

Our time and season to fight back

Prayer from Qualities of a Spiritual Warrior Father, thank you that this is our time and season to fight back – to war against a religious spirit that has bound…