Something larger holds us captive Word Count: 5 Today’s Reading: 1 Peter – 2 Peter Don’t forget: On May 1 we start our study of Making Manifest by Dave Harrity. Learn more here. In the stillness, Sandy
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 37 (and a Making Manifest winner!)
Family time at the water park. Then we cut shoe patterns for Sole Hope in our hotel room. The grandgirl grimaced at the video of Ugandan children with jiggers. The next day she bought a pair of shoes for 82 dollars. Word count: 40 Today’s Reading: 1 Timothy 1 – 2 Timothy 4 NOTE: During […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 36
“Poetry fills me with joy and I rise like a feather in the wind. Poetry fills me with sorrow and I sink like a chain flung from a bridge. But mostly poetry fills me with the urge to write poetry . . . ” ~Billy Collins, “The Trouble with Poetry,” in Aimless Love: New and […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 34
Lent is a 40-day journey, I’m told. But there are actually 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter morning. The Sundays are feast days, not fast days. Who knew? I need to plan a new plan. A diminishing diet. A shrinking of words? Word Count: 40 Today’s Reading: Ephesians 1 – 6 “The good […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 33 (Scripture Sunday)
We’ve chosen Spirit life. “That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.” Word Count: 40 ~ From Galatians 5:25-26 (MSG) Today’s Reading: Celebrating the wonder of […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 31 (Five Minute Friday – Writer)
She threw the rock in a meltdown moment. The lantern exploded into a bazillion grains of shimmered sand. He makes all things beautiful. I brushed the shards into my palm, squeezed until I bled. Then I sat down to write. Word Count: 40 Today’s Reading: 2 Corinthians 1 – 13 NOTE: “We need […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 30 (Plus An Invitation and a Giveaway!)
“We need solitude in a world that wants to visit, quiet from a world that wants idle chit-chat, and steadfastness in a world where everything’s changing and transient. We need time to gather the little pieces of ourselves that scatter.” Word Count: 40 ~Dave Harrity in Making Manifest: On Faith, Creativity, and the Kingdom at […]
still saturday: still or stationary?
The stationary pilgrim always turns his head around to see what was or what could have been. He loses focus on the potential and possibility of now. So he stays in the position of inaction because he can’t imagine another way. Stationary is frail-boned, a faint pulse. The still pilgrim is engaged in a fully-realized […]
still saturday: poetry begins you
Let’s be clear: poetry begins you, though you might not know or feel it. You’re alive in a world God made from words. And God’s words have made you alive, and are making you more and more so. ~Dave Harrity in Making Manifest, “space and silence,” p. 25 Maybe it’s our job to incline our […]
