Northern tip of the Chesapeake Bay. The beauty of it got me thinking… What purpose does it serve? Yet beauty is all around us, giving us pause. Making us wonder, stopping us in our tracks to catch our breath. Beauty calls to us, beckoning us into its presence. A presence we seem unable to gain. […]
Month: November 2021
JOY
Two of my grandchildren teaching me what joy looks like. Do you have joy? What is joy? Whatever it is children seem to own it by default. They assume the day will be good. They look forward to the next few minutes regardless of the last few. It takes years of life in this remorseless […]
LOVE
What is love? I am repeatedly commanded by God to love, and I am terrible at it. Most of what we read and say and sing about love is in romantic terms, but God has very little to say about that, apart from the Song of Solomon. God seems almost insane with his expectations of […]
LIFE UNDER THE SUN
“Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, Vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, But the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it rises.” […]