As each Sunday morning came and went, they became more depressing. The pews were being vacated by disgruntled souls who left to try other churches in order to fulfill their spiritual n...
The snow shall come again. From a lofty place suspended between heaven and earth comes soft crystals, floating down in cadence to the song of the wind. God from above, conducts the ch...
If thoughts were to be divided into two zones, our earthly one would be like the astronomer gazing at the universe to find secrets hidden within it. The hidden secrets would be like th...
The Kiss of Summer I long for its tender touch A daring escape from winter’s clut… Green fields and swaying barleys Its sultry breath and cooling seas
At the church meeting last month, they voted down a gift from one of the members who had a rather undesirable lifestyle. He had to explain where the money came from. He was involved wi...
At home in the eyes of the sun spume of fire storming out from ev… hanging in the crispy skies o’er s… forest and meadows, wood and stran… looking over the forest with its h…
Grandma at the renaissance of the age of the telephone, when humans interjected and said, “Number Please,” when telephones were
I need a vacation from the daily g… And leave all the commotion way be… Bosses yelling, weather steaming, Dogs barking, children screaming, Fence needs fixing, grass too high…
Forbidden Zone You dear sweet child, a blessing t… Endowed with kindness and affectio… God lives in your heart and guides… Your joy is him smiling through yo…
Oceans swell and music oscillates as nature rhymes in the rolling. Glassy waters sit atop the motion as eternal engines pump the seas. Dolphins play in their quiet playg…
Red zone, pay dirt, honeycomb have… where the paradise waits and the sun doth shine, but where sentries are stationed with spears and arrows.
One of my favorite musical compositions is Stravinsky’s “Firebird,” written for a ballet in 1910. I can imagine what it is about by listening to the music and letting it take me on a jo...
My soul begged me to fill it with a sound unheard before to soothe the rough edges, the ones that dig into my heart with its unsavory picks and shovel…
The Melting Pot Generations upon generations of th… Thrown together, each one as tradi… Through the years, from standing o… Rising from birth, see how they’ve…
Human nature and animal behavior are similar. Animals are instinctively hostile to others who are different until they become familiarized with them and create a bond. Humans cover up t...