May

“Let thy house be a meeting-house for the wise; and powder thyself in the dust of their feet; and drink their word with thirstiness.” Yose ben Yoezer   The above quote is from the Mishnah, a collection of Jewish Rabbinic thought. There is a current, popular religious saying derived from this quote. It says, “be covered in the dust of the rabbi.” The saying is both instructional and instructive. Instructional in a simple manner, we are to meet in our house, include the wise

Everything is an affair of the Spirit. If God has a way, then that is the only way. Every little thing in which you would have your own way, has a mission for your redemption; and He will treat you as a naughty child until you take your Father’s way for yours. George MacDonald   There arises within the joy of Christ finding His beloved a desire to know more of the person of Christ, the meaning of what He said, a desire yearning for a roadmap in the life ahead. Such a desir

The sign reads, “Put some South in ya mouth” but only Tuesday through Saturday night. The sign promotes the Southern Smoke Barbeque and Catering Company, a restaurant I pass daily. Southerners do a lot of communicating with food, harkening to our primitive and primary natures. In our gumbos and pecan pies, our hoppin’ John and hog jowls, our fried chicken and buttermilk biscuits, we express an undefinable love residing in our soul. Southerners are a religious people. We can

The Lowcountry, a geographical place with mysteries seeping toward consciousness, beckons you. A thread runs through this land and its...

I once met a man who seemed to me Someone detached from care. And envy’s dream I dreamed for me To live my life as him. “I think...

Sitting in a restaurant recently, eating a buckwheat crepe filled with brie and topped with strawberries, grapes and walnuts, I looked up...

I don’t like crowds any more, meaning being in them or following them. Following a crowd is not a Cheatham trait. When as a child, I...

Sometimes we understand a story not by what is present but what is absent. In his book, Ambition and Survival, Christian Wiman says,...

Admission, if not compulsory, opens me toward confession. I admit and confess my faith experiences doubt on occasion. Sometimes I shrug...

Of late, I’ve been taking time to put my worldly house in order, performing certain social duties, tending to work and involving myself...

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart to revere your name. Psalm 86:11 No good Southern...

“ Give us this day our daily bread ” (Matthew 6:11, NKJV). The simple child in me never journeyed past the thought this was a request to...

In the Knight house on Route 2, Pelzer, South Carolina, it was just another spaghetti Saturday. Aunt Nancee obliged this ritual for my...

“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it” (1...

There’s a quality to taking a road trip. Driving down the road around curves and corners, rolling over a glacis or ambling down some live...

There are times when my faith is tried, when I move from that great welled feeling of comfort and mystery and theory into a guttural...

Photo by Randy Parker Truth rains its words On whitewashed tombs, While nonetheless aware, The other cheek turns away In silent crimsoned...

Mary loved going to church. At the end of maturity for six-year-olds and the children’s sermon, Mary loved the stories. Though she didn’t...

Jimmy was reared in modest means. A wholesome family, Jimmy’s parents worked hard and taught their children proper values and morals....

Beneath the old oak tree, framed in twilight, a lone silhouette, an old man with his box sat and watched while the graveyard spirits...