January

They call it mountain time. I call it otherworldly, surreal in some ways, slow and dripping like that Salvador Dali painting. Things,...

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to...

I have come to believe. This statement evokes thought. If the emphasis is placed on the word “come,” the word suggests time and place....

For most of my conscious memory, I have hated cold weather. Shivers do not warm me. Toboggans are useless. Gloves are for fashion, and...

“… that mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may...

“Hardtack, I have not meant to ignore you. Our leader, Screwtape, demanded my presence for an update on an overall change in strategy...

“As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come...

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for we are all one in Christ Jesus...

Sweet Lunastelle, Not too long ago (at least in my memory), my parents and the elders to whom I looked for guidance in conversation about...

Stelle, With boundless joy, by mercy you will love. This is true and right as our Lord loved neighbor and glorified God. Jesus loved when...

My dearest Stelle, Your devotion to seeking truth brings light amid my concerns. Perspective is such a necessary gift of grace in a...

Dear Stelle, Two men, embarking on a nature walk, came upon a most exquisite flower. To the one, the flower spoke of beauty, of creation...

Dear Lunastelle, Joy fills me when I hear your relationship with Christ is growing. A life in Christ is not an easy one. Outside the...

Somewhere in the lexicon of Christian thought, the idea of tolerance crept in to suggest this was the whole and final conclusion one...

(Note to reader: Chronos is the Greek word for chronological time. Kairos is the Greek word meaning seasonal time, i.e. God’s time as...

Age has nothing to do with finitude. It has everything to do with an ever-widening awareness of the vicissitudes of perspective, the...

There may have been a time in a person’s willful life, a time before he believed, when the whole of the Christian story seemed...

Curator : “ Sir, we do not sit on the museum’s display chairs.”  Patron: “But, madam, it bid me sit down. Was it not made for this...

Kumph! HaKumph! HaRrrrrummph!   Why am I coughing? Where am I? It’s so dark. And cold.  Dust.  You’re  in your grave. Your cough, though,...

Early in my youth, naïve and uninitiated, I believed in the good of every person. Life has modified and clarified for me my belief lay...