Archive for January, 2007
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
I can’t stay silent, even though I want to keep this blog (not much of a blog lately, I guess) local. Still, I have to say it: BRING ‘EM HOME. Admit that we played into the hands of wicked but canny Islamists and stop giving them what they wanted in the first place, a war [...]
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
I prayed the terrible prayer: “Thy will be done.†Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive.
~~Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow.
I ponder what Wendell Berry calls, “the terrible prayer.” Faith is the serenity to trust beyond our experience. To pray [...]
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
An empty canvas waits before the Painter
An empty canvas destined to be hung
Within the gallery once it has been created
Will the canvas bear the beauty of God’s Son.
~~John Michael Talbot, Empty Canvas
The first days of a new [...]
Monday, January 1st, 2007
Step by step the longest march
can be won, can be won
Many stones can form an arch,
singly none, singly none
And by union what we will
can be accomplished still
Drops of water turn a mill,
singly none singly none
Pete Seeger, I think, wrote the words of the traditional song above. It speaks of the potential of community.
I ache for [...]
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