Today’s entry is excerpted from New Hearts Helping New Hearts. A devotional to be published in 2016 When the accusers hear Jesus speak in Matthew 22:22, they marvel, and go their way. When the
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Teeth of God
I clipped blue iris, those little teeth of God, the day your grandson died. Like spears in a vase the cut stems still take water. The window light, filtered by glass, frames life. Two weeks
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The following is an excerpt from a soon to be published devotional “New Hearts Teaching New Hearts” due out in Winter 2016 Jesus crucified is the crux of the matter, and what is the matter
Read moreKnee Stain
Drops swell at branch tip to catch bubble light and, glass like, wink to the waiting grass. Even with scrubbing the new dirt of the strawberry hill paves the crease in my finger skin. Between
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the following is an excerpt of an upcoming devotional due Fall 2015 New Hearts Teaching New Hearts… The thief does not come except comes to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. Everything about
Read moreSong Bark
Wintered leaves rattle at apple branch end, the lone music makers in the life of the tree. Delayed rendevous gives me glimpse of a natural chorus ignored. Jesus said, “The very stones will cry out…”
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the following is excerpted from a devotional in progress…”New Hearts Teaching Hearts to be New” Due out in Spring 2015 Verse 37 spells out the implications of our relationship with God. “For with God
Read moreMoccasin Man
Mowed the lawn in moccasins to make a point about January being different in the great and generous Northwest. My Daddy, frostbit, from chopping ice off the walk a few decades and states east of
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“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27. What better point of reference is there to start a new year? Unfortunately most of us approach this hope as if we were funneling molasses in
Read moreHanging the Light of the World on a String
The wren wonders at outdoor Christmas lights, not much there for nesting, the wires make poor worms, the bulbs, sharp white on green leaves, confuse with slight shadows and heat. To a bird’s eye, this
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