sometimes
Sometimes I feel it’s enough to just experience and feel the differences in my heart and mind. The way I see God and see the world, the universe. The weirdness and “off-ness” that I process when sitting on the deck in the early morning sunlight. Sometimes I feel I should put them[...]
father
Father, You are so much more than magnificent, more. But there’s not really a word to describe You, is there? If a word could describe your power and greatness, you would be too small to worship. If a human could find that one word, that descriptive phrase, those letters in the alphabet[...]
Hear me now God
With my eyes closed, it sounds like the crackling of the stars. The moaning of the wind and the grass crunchy under my feet in winter. It’s soft and soothing like baby powder but strong and protective like thunder in the raging clouds of spring. How do I hear it all at once?[...]
It lasts only a moment
It lasts only a moment. That short space of Time when my eye catches a color in the sunset, and I have no idea what the name of that color is. Not purple, not magenta, not orchid. Not even blue. It saturates my vision for a split second, but quickly shifts then dissipates.[...]
I’ve never wondered til now…
I’ve never wondered til now… Was the pier just being built as I sat perched up there on that pier post? Or had it aged out and been blown away by a hurricane long before we arrived there that day on vacation? I don’t remember actually sitting up there. Or who placed[...]
I Am A Wind Chime
I have a wind chime hanging from the rafters of my deck. It’s the usual, twine, a bell, and a bright red cardinal. He is stone, of course, painted with a garish red paint, the typical cardinal markings in black. A few feet away, three red, flesh, blood and feather, male cardinals[...]