I have a question. How does one go about writing Christianly? Should one go about writing Christianly and what does that mean? I did a review lately on Gene Veith’s “Reading Between the Lines”. He wrote that good Christian writing should reflect high aesthetic standards as well as sound biblical moral truths. That sounds simple [...]
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Folk Tale – by R S Thomas
Prayers like gravel flung at the sky’s window, hoping to attract the loved one’s attention. But without visible plaits to let down for the believer to climb up, to what purpose open that casement? I would have refrained long since But that peering once Through my locked fingers I thought that I detected the movement [...]
Ta da
After a frazzling start to the year, I am ready to spend the rest of my days baking cookies and sewing. It won’t matter that the cookies I bake may not turn out (to be cookies) or that the product of my labour of love with needle and thread will be mainly buttons and perhaps, [...]
Gusts of wind, the waterhorse and the ordinariness of Christmas.
A sheaf of wind. The Waterhorse Suite. Children’s voices playing. Quiet. I live for such days!! We’re done with the pre-Christmas flurry of carolling, gatherings, performances and gifts. Is Christmas ever complete without these? I suppose so. Several Christmases back, all we could manage were home-made gifts for each other and a Christmas tree the [...]
Through Ways Unknown
I loved this song when I first heard it while watching “Joseph King of Dreams”.
Lighting a Miracle
We live in interesting times. We also live in anxious times where promises are glibly made and broken. We huddle for warmth around the illusion of a better government and a fairer society that is marked by clasped hands instead of clenched fists. As time passes, we find that instead of healing there is distortion- [...]
