The noise of the world seems to be a refuge for many, for me. Like a single soul, stepping into a crowded room, the rumbling sounds of activity, promising to pacify desperate spirits. And while I find the “hum” blankets me, business distracts me….It doesn’t do anything to magnify my soul. The noisy push and pull […]
Feathered creatures wake me with singing outside my door, as winter bends and bows to the merging sounds of spring. “Croak, croak”, the deep throated voice of large toads announce their return from my pond. And this morning, a train “toots”, from down and beyond the turn below, just barely shooting forth, reminding me that life […]
Like the photo of a wrecking ball, smashing the walls of a Chinese Church. I saw the destruction coming. I felt the event happening. No, there was no steal ball, no dust and smoke, no rubble or physical substance left lifeless along the earth. But destruction happened, nonetheless. Loss. Internal scars that crushed even the most […]
It’s been a year since I kissed your bald forehead, that tumultuous day, and walked out of the room after saying my last goodye. And yet, in my heart, you are still alive. I saw you the other day, in the grey-haired grandpa behind me at the grocery store. He befriended me, just like you would […]
As the dawn breaks and we all stretch, as if stiff-legged bears, coming out of our caves after a long winter… Much has changes. Snow geese cover the long-since plowed fields, as if angels decended, upon the muddied soil of our well-picked hearts. Do we notice the rivers, once mild and molded, now spilling out, uncontained, […]
A war started yesterday. We were driving away from one church and headed to another, and Amir Tsarfati, who we had heard speak a few years ago, shared the heartbreaking news. Russia had been surrounding Ukraine like a swarm of locus’; posturing, posing, and purposefully intending to strike Ukraine, though Ukraine had done nothing wrong. Then, […]