My shoe covers rustle along the linoleum floor until I come to the holding area. I find her, eyes closed on the gurney, brown wisps around green paper cap. A tiny lady almost swallowed by crisp white and warm woven. I pick up the chart at the foot of the bed and page through it. […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: He reigns!
The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice. ~Psalm 97:1 (NIV)
Saturday Snaps: A Peek at a Piping Plover
We’ve just come back from the Au Sable Light Station near Grand Marais, and the grandgirl and I are hiked out. She just wants to crash in the cabin with her Littlest Pet Shop critters and her case of plastic fish. I just want to make some coffee, put up my feet, and eye my slice […]
I Am His Poem
So look in the mirror and pray for the grace To tear off the mask, see the art of your face. ~Michael Card in The Poem of Your Life When I wake up this morning, my bedroom is still pink. It’s been pink now for nine years plus. Every square inch of this house needs […]
Walking Wooden
They’re at it again, these two. Claire and L.L. Asking us to stretch our “creative fibers.” To share our history symbolically. In photographic images. And poetry–a sonnet. Claire challenges us to find five photos that answer five specific questions. I didn’t realize how much my life has been shaped by wood. 1. Who Made Up Your […]
Textures of Text: It’s a Mystery
All mystery feels like fog. It presents hiddenness. It demands strong faith to walk into it believing that one day it will be demystified. ~Luci Shaw It’s a mystery this hunger for the hidden, the faulty that aches for the faultless, the flawed that yearns for the flawless, how the best havings are in the […]
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: The Soo Locks
It’s time to go home. But Grace saw a movie at school on the Soo Locks. She wants to see them up close and personal. And go through them. The scenery assaults me. We’ve come from peaceful and pristine to chaos and clutter. Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan side. A place of barges and docks and […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Taquamenaw
(Photo of the upper Tahquamenon falls by Grace King) Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in the valley I a light canoe will build me, Build a swift Cheemaun for sailing, That shall float on the river, Like a […]
Saturday Snaps: Early Bird
Let me shout God’s name with a praising song, Let me tell his greatness in a prayer of thanks. ~Psalm 69:30 (Message)
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: Around Grand Marais and the Au Sable Light Station
Dennis and Grace are still asleep when I hike down to the beach. On the way, I see my first cedar waxwing. The beach is deserted, and I am alone with the sand and sky and water. We promised Grace a lazy day with no hiking. But then we tell her of another falls […]
