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Is my work a delight? | Quiet Sonbeams
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June 29, 2015. Is my work a delight? God’s words are alive and active. They breathe life into me when I tend to feel dull. They are like a sword that cuts through to the essence of the matter at hand, dealing with what. The matter with me. These words jumped off the page during a feast of a sermon on 1 Thessalonians yesterday. I’d already felt God’s challenge to stop being lazy recently. To wake up and work harder. To deal with feeling. Then these words sharpened my focus in the context of mothering.
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press the pause button | Quiet Sonbeams
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May 24, 2015. Press the pause button. I am developing an aversion to words like. Hurry, rush, scurry, fast. Preferring instead ponder, slow and contemplate. It has been a semi-colon. Kind of an afternoon. A pause to breathe deep and catch my breath after a busy ‘out and about” week. Autumn verges on the cold snap of winter. The last of the roses bloom giving bursts of colour and subtle fragrance against the backdrop of barren branches. Darker and damp after a shower of rain. Stop Sit. Still. I love God a...
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Lenten Sonnet — Joel Clarkson
http://www.joelclarkson.com/2015/02/18/lenten-sonnet
February 18, 2015. It is also a spiritual darkness, the early morning hours before dawn. Lent looks toward Holy Week, remembering Jesus going up to Jerusalem toward his fate on the cross. The hope of resurrection is there, yes. Unlike Jesus’ disciples, we know what comes next. And yet there is still a lingering dread, knowing that before resurrection comes the cross, and the grave. The descent into the dark. Last August I took a sonnet-writing class with the inimitable Malcolm Guite. 8211; J.C. Moved to ...
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After the silence… | Thoroughly Alive
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After the silence…. On Jul 28, 2015 14 comments. 8220;Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”. If I only have one morning a week in which to pursue this kind of writing… what should I choose? My children’s story? That novel catching at my imagination for years now? A collection of devotional, creative, Scripture-based essays? Over and out for now. July 28, 2015. July 28, 2015. I have mi...
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