The Clouds That Veil
Heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in the thin places that distance is even smaller. A thin place is where the veil that separates heaven and earth is lifted and one is able to glimpse...
View ArticleThe Heavens Boiling
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil… ~Isaiah 64:1-2 And this, then, is the...
View ArticleIntentional
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. ~John Calvin It is too easy to become blinded to the glory surrounding us if we...
View ArticleLooking Up into the Vastness
Yes, I see you down there looking up into my vastness. What are you hoping to find on my vacant face, there within the margins of telephone wires? You should know I am only bright blue now...
View ArticleThe Interior of the Soul
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~Victor Hugo What possibly can be grander than...
View ArticleA Cloudy Greeting
To make myself understood and to diminish the distance between us, I called out: “I am an evening cloud too.” They stopped still, evidently taking a good look at me. Then they stretched towards...
View ArticleA Long and Wondrous Journey
Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out of the brisk cloud, to be happy again in a new way on the earth! Then it was over. The sky cleared. I was standing...
View ArticleThe World Too Beautiful
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! Thy mists, that roll and rise! Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag And all but cry with color! That gaunt...
View ArticleThe Windowed Light
In its web I see the mountains swell with slow rhythmic oscillations in a sea of sky and waves of breaking clouds. I listen to the leaves— those that fall, those that persist on their...
View ArticleLike Thunder Follows Lightening
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice an echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightening. ~Karl Barth...
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