Day works into night, a great blue heron silhouettes black against the last pink slip of sunset. Near the end of my route, kitchen lights outnumber the stars, the year’s new twilight shadows me home.
Read moreAuthor: Will Schmit
Good Orderly Direction
1000 geese flew over our house in a string of promise this morning. Not one of them looked backwards and their song seemed to carry them as much as their wings. A cold wind is
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The chip in the mug lets my lip know the sipping side. Burnt beans and water mark the morning begun. Just out of daybreak’s glare, we prop on pillows and psalms, choosing once and future
Read moreHo Ho Hope
“But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.” Romans 8:25 I’m scheduled to go to prison this Sunday. It’s been awhile. As a volunteer minister I’ve
Read moreIn A New Light
The un-neighborly dog barked til three, my dog, calm as a cow, slept, one leg on, one leg off the pillow. The news was already bad by midnight, dawn just made it harder to
Read moreGod’s Got What ?
I found a bracelet on the warehouse floor the day our contracts terminated. Black plastic wristband, the kind the kids wear. God has got this, is what it said. I asked the younger probable believer
Read moreIt Takes A Knee
I won’t convince you of anything. Social media, a big word meaning writing to friends and strangers, is said to only re-enforce preconceived notions. So in order to communicate without polarizing I might follow the
Read moreSit Trust Fair
The new road to the old moon follows a line of wild hickories and neon pizza lights. A roadside cascade of orange tomatoes splits its sides laughing at chip paint billboards promising a future home.
Read moreWhat Then, What Now?
Unless our modern Christianity points to Christ, it is pointless. I hope it doesn’t shock us to admit people can be moral, high minded, even selfless without Jesus. The old school scare ’em out of
Read morefrom dust, where you played
Hooked on sky dust rises to make music of rainbows, bridges, and the things water brings to the table set before the sun. Grace spins in spontaneous space on the fingertip of His creation. We
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