Due to several reasons, including the fact that no one really much reads this anyway and that I have three blogs but should just consolidate into one, I am leaving livejournal, my oldest blogging partner ( Read more... )

 At least once a week, someone in my relatively small neighborhood is throwing away furniture.  I don't know if this is due to the transient nature o the living situations in my neighborhood (a good deal of the housing facilities are apartments) or if its just the season for new furniture, but there are always piles of it on the side of the road ( Read more... )

Expectations and Filled-In Spaces

*I apologize in advance if I go a little cerebral or Faulkner on you here

This morning as I was willing myself to crawl from between my sheets, promising myself only one more eight-minute interval before I hit Off instead of Snooze, there were some old thoughts casting about in my attic of a brain. Incidentally, our ( Read more... )

I have so much to say lately, but not the initiative to get it down in words. Nor the time, for that matter, to get down as much as I want to get down in writing. I've been consuming books like food, however, over the holidays and liked this latest piece from Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard.

A blur of romance clings to our notions of "publicans," " ( Read more... )

It's funny how, once you've gotten over someone you were once interested in, things that were once endearing to you (like mismatched socks or quirky habits) about the person you once admired become disenchanting and ridiculous.

Of course, this thought is not the result of once specific incidence of unrequited pining, just a realization which I ( Read more... )

The tree of life my soul hath seen,
laden with fruit and always green.
The trees of nature fruitless be
compared with Christ the apple tree.

Its beauty doth all things excel;
By faith I know, but ne'er can tell
the glory which I now can see
in Jesus Christ the apple tree.

For happiness I long have sought
and treasure dearly I have bought.
I missed of all, ( Read more... )

"Ecstasy and delight are essential to the believer's soul and they promote sanctification. We are not meant to live without spiritual exhilaration...The believer is in spiritual danger if he allows himself to go for any length of time without tasting the love of Christ...When Christ ceases to fill the heart with satisfaction, our souls will go in ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's been the prolonged drought in the Southeast or the unusually long warm season we've been experiencing. Or it could be my previous failure to attend to such detail, but the trees have been changing in a way I've never seen before.

I'm used to trees changing their color all at once, overnight from green to red, then a few weeks ( Read more... )

Walk forward now in the light you've been given.  Do not bemoan the darkness ahead.

"Whether we think of or speak to God, whether we act or suffer for Him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than His love, and the desire of pleasing Him.  All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God...In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is a ( Read more... )