December 2011
17 posts
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“the path is made by walking”
– nora gallagher, practicing resurrection
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babies & hearses
Every moment, every subtle touch and each hellish thought finds placement in the Divine economy. It is subsumed, eventually. And so, it is that our human longings, as shattered as they are, were worth trusting at some deep level. At the vocalization of lament and sorrow, we find God—when the rug’s pull lands us on our back, we have a view to the stars. And maybe I am the pathological optimist,...
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vexing brightness
the wick is silently breathing in
it’s afraid to end its humble moment
when light filled the room with praise
And the calm clear orange fluttered in space
oh vexing brightness time not concerning
you bend with the wind and collect at the heights
giving what you must and what we all see
exposing the depths and the ways we might be
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“we are words on a journey
not the inscriptions of settled people”
– w.s. merwin
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“take out a cup
and some bread
and put it in the middle of the table,
and say...”
– rob bell (via kolyswis)
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twilight
decorate the sounds,
and dance the rhythms that send you…
beyond these shores,
into what you don’t know no more…
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endings & sendings, landings & ledgers
I told my counselor that I wasn’t sure how to end, say good-bye and leave Michigan this time around. When I moved a few years ago I was under the belief that I was just saying a see-ya-later-kinda-good-bye to everyone. Turns out, when you move, you loose contact, people continue on and things are never the same. This is how life goes—it flows on with and without you. So, reentering the...
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“hardly escaping the limitless machines
that balk his thought and torment his...”
– wendell berry
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family tree
i went back, to boyhood moorings to find where the tug holds rootage
i walked long to stand next to this tree blown by the fall
there is:
no fruit to its branches
no temptation
no edenic fauter
achy, old, desolate and wanting
while winter is coming back, slowly taking everything the years gave
freezing tears and halting hollow hopes.
so, i’ve thrown hands to the skies hoping like...
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our mother eve in 'the city of god' || a...
It is hard to underestimate or overstate Saint Augustine’s influence on Christian thinking from the late 3rd century onward. That is to say, he is highly shaping in Reformation thinking as well as in Roman Catholicism. One can see his influence in Reformed Doctrine, such as: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, and well, we can just say the whole system of...
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