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Mountains Rise
Posted on October 2, 2025 Leave a Comment
Mountains riseBefore meI wish I couldRun my hand Across the crest of themAs one caressesA pup’s headNoble and watchfulLined uniquelyWith purposed shapeBeautifully invigoratedYet they are bigAnd I smallIn statureBut not soIn heart and spiritWould I one dayBecome their masterDignified in gratitude? This poem was written at my parents’ house in North Georgia sometime last year. […]
Holy Week Posts
Posted on April 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
In 2020 and 2021 I wrote a series of Holy Week posts for each day of the week. As we enter into Holy Week 2022, I thought I might share them again. The intent is for them to be used as devotional readings for each day of the week. You can click the links below […]
A Year In Review
Posted on January 21, 2022 Leave a Comment
A year in review Peer at heart’s blood spilt Strokes and smudges prove Inky aches, grief, guilt Pen pressed to paper A soul’s life pressed bleeds Self-reliant nat’re Dies, new life receives Deadly peril kills, Makes dead, despairing Of life’s turning thrills; No more even caring And thus delivered Up, deceased, seeking Hope and Source […]
Grief Is Like… The Ball and the Box
Posted on April 26, 2021 Leave a Comment
This is the second post in a short series on analogies of grief. You can read the first post here, which includes an introduction to the importance of these analogies. A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a friend about his experience of grief over the loss of his mom not long after […]
Easter Poems: A Short Compilation
Posted on April 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
While Easter is a day, it is also a season. Easter Sunday is the beginning of an extended time of reflection and meditation on the events of Christ’s Passion and its implications for our lives. Easter begins on Easter Sunday but extends forty more days until Ascension Day and then continues ten more days until […]
Holy Week: Easter Sunday
Posted on April 4, 2021 Leave a Comment
Easter Sunday. He is risen! He is risen, indeed! Christ’s resurrection is the great victory and pivotal moment around which all reality orbits. And yet, this Easter is tinged with grief for me [originally written in 2020]. If I’m honest, I’m grieved to not be worshiping in person with my church family. I’m grieved by […]
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