Writings

Writing Corner

This is my space to share whatever thoughts I’m exploring. Sometimes I will share reflections, at other times I’ll post poetry or stories. I have also spent time researching the lives of family members from generations before me. Any and all of these scribblings will be shared here. So keep an eye out and join me on this journey of creativity.

Make hay while the sun shines

We all have dreams of things we’d like to accomplish: places we’d like to go, maybe a book we want to write, or a landscape to paint, or a course we want to take, or well, you get the idea. There could be things that would help someone: work in a charity shop once a Read More
More Than Just Talk

In spending time with a woman who is in the last stages of cancer, I have had an opportunity to reflect. We sit together in a quiet room, curtains drawn to protect her from the sunlight, she in her chair, I in mine, and a coffee table between us. Although she is awake, her eyes Read More
Redemption and the Road Ahead

In our modern evangelical, evangelistic vocabulary, the key word is “saved”, to get saved, to be saved. You hear it a lot. It’s like… we were drowning, in a burning house, or being attacked by a bear, and someone came in and rescued us — we were saved, WHEW. Theologically, we were trapped and steeped Read More
A Greater Deep

Walking by the sea is supposed to be good for your health. It is not just the walking, which we know is healthful, but also the sea air, the minerals and salts that the wind carries in along the coastline. Breathing them clears the mind and the lungs. The rhythm of the waves coming and Read More
From Shelter to Home

We sometimes sing a hymn that says: God is “Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home.” That may come as a surprise to someone who has a concept of God as a distant, austere accountant or judge, but it is not uncommon in the Bible. Listen to these Old Testament words picturing Read More
Outside the March of Time

Time keeps going at a steady, unrelenting pace. And that pace is heightened because we fill it with activities, with duties, work that must be done, people to be seen, and with the structures of hours, days, weeks and months. Seasons come and go. The beautiful autumn colors fade and fall into to dark winter Read More