Is it sad? or am I sad? can we be honest?
It’s interesting how language lives. It upgrades. It downgrades. It takes to the streets and to the wires and the wireless: it is news, radio and late night tv. Who would have ever imagined there would be an urban dictionary? Who could have predicted that words today would have such different meanings than they did […]
Is life erasable or indelible?
If I could write the words of life in pencil and not pen, erase that bit, re-draft that part, try out that ending, then… Penciled in, not permanent, what a better life I’d live. Take some chances, try stuff out, Oh what I wouldn’t give. Wait, that pencil is right here, it’s sharpened in my […]
The Assignment of Your Life!
God spoke a word and you were you. God spoke another word and I was me. God doesn’t waste breath. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for […]
Words and how we use them
Words, so useful, so plentiful, but oh, so dangerous, so deadly. You, Sir, have given them to me as a gift. My life is but a word. How will I use it? To build up, not to tear down To tell the story of what You’ve done in my life To greet and get to know […]
Love begets love
I know love when I am in its presence. It smiles at me, holds me in its embrace, takes my hand and wants to show me. It asks me why, tells me when, wonders how. It thanks me and nods its approval. Love leaves me smiling. Love begets love. Ah, but I know its enemy, too. […]
Ex-Poser
You know it when you read it. You haven’t heard from this friend in a looong time, but it’s nice that they are trying to reconnect. You accept their friend request and they respond pleasantly enough. “Thanks for accepting my request. How are things going with you?” You send a brief reply, intending to follow up […]
That’s the way I love you
Evil calls to evil; it calls on itself. Good calls to good; it calls out to itself. They reside side by side; Neither will the other abide. The thing I say is not the thing I want to say… The thing I write is not the thing I want to write… The thing I do is not the thing […]
Finding Calm in Stormy Seas
“All hands on deck!” the captain hollered, as another towering wave crashed over the bow. The cabin of our barely sea-going vessel was already knee-deep with water. We were bailing as fast as we could, but the storm was beating us down. How do you make headway in a blinding rain when every wave threatens to throw you overboard? “Cap’n, […]
I am, but God is
It’s comforting to sit among friends to share how difficult it is (life makes it) (circumstances dictate) (inspiration absent) to wait to do what I’m supposed to, meant to, what I promised to do. Circumstances don’t define me. My life is bigger than that. Life needn’t suffocate me. I can choose air, light, breath. Inspiration […]
There’s been an explosion, but there is no bomb
Shell-shocked. I’m flattened, literally, thrown to the ground by the hand grenades being heaved in my land. There’s been a bombing, but there’s no shrapnel, no visible debris, just many, many injuries. Bodies strewn everywhere, writhing in pain. Bandaging their wounds, wrapping their torn limbs. Some, sitting motionless on the cement, with hands pressed to […]