Since I was a child, I’ve seen dead people all dressed up, cold and still, flat on their backs, hands folded across their chests the way my husband says I sleep.
The Impact Crater that I Almost Missed
The screams are squelched. The car door opens and the creature drags the girl’s lifeless, limp body into the woods that line the road before the stillness that must come after such violence settles in.
Intersections of Contrary Things
The self-proclaimed sane unconvinced onlookers in books and life expect that their science, stealth investigation, or innovation will eventually clear every messy mystery up and prove once and for all the intense madness of true believers who, guided by the sure light of a divine code, walk in ancient ways.
Two Thieves, a Middleman, and Some People at the Waffle Café
TWO THIEVES, A MIDDLEMAN, AND SOME PEOPLE AT THE WAFFLE CAFÉ ________________________________________________________________ A Play in Two Acts by a blogger whose blog got a little out of hand Copyright © 2016 …
Some things I learned from my dad because I was not in Children’s Church
Two things are on my mind today. Number 1: My dad’s 79th birthday: Happy birthday Daddy! Number 2: Church nurseries and “Children’s Church.” Below are some things I learned as a child at church from my dad because I was not in nursery or Children’s Church. 1. I learned to…
Is being practical, practical?
Compromise is practical. It’s the nice thing to do we’re taught. So we do it, and it’s usually a good thing in a way. We don’t get all of what we want, but we at least get something. Sometimes it works out that we get a smaller portion of exactly…
Move Down?
Perhaps you’ve been an outcast of a sort, and you can fully understand what it means to move down.
We the People: On the topic of Abortion
An essay & a poem by Pamela Eason “We the People,” bestowed on us by our constitution, officially labels the collective. It brings to mind our collective – our society acting as one. “We the People” is you, and it is me. It once sounded like a stately title. God…
Guardians
In chapters 61 and 62 the prophet Isaiah uses poetic language to describe God’s royal city, shinning and blazing from the fuel of righteousness and salvation. He blends this image with others so that, from our perspective, Isaiah’s vision of the future merges with history past and present. The Span…
What Does it Mean that God is Holy?
God is holy. “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them. You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy …,” Leviticus 19:2, ESV What is God’s holiness? Often we tend to limit holiness to God’s moral perfection or perfect purity…