8/2/10:  We went the other day to look at our old house.  It was a place where we made delightful memories, but now it is greatly changed.  Other people have been there, and made their own memories, not so good, and the place seems dark and despondent.  But here and there evidence of us remains [...]

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I have an assignment to write a short story themed on “love.”  What a huge topic!  How can I say anything new about it?  How can I come up with a story that is not smarmy and trite?  The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that everything is love – [...]

Posted in Epiphany, Love, The Human Condition2 Comments » - Tags: Christianity, creation, God, human condition, love, nature

It is to me a marvel, the way seemingly disparate sources give us puzzle pieces that fit together into a unified whole.  I seem to be developing a whole cosmology (or is the Spirit teaching me?) out of bits of various readings. Awhile back, in N.T. Wright’s Simply Christian and Surprised by Hope, I found [...]

Posted in What Is Man?3 Comments » - Tags: Christianity, creation, God, human condition, love, mystery, reaching to God

Driving over to church today, we passed a dead skunk by the side of the road.  It occurred to me that skunks are really quite pretty animals, with their shiny black fur and crisp white stripes.  Then, of course, I thought of their smell.  As far as I know, there is no creature that likes, [...]

Posted in Inter-Species Relationships6 Comments » - Tags: Christianity, God, human condition, love, nature