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  • During Lent, I’ll be writing six hymns that capture the spirit of reflection for the season. I will publish them on Sunday mornings. All the hymns will be set to well known tunes, so they will be easily shareable and singable upon reading. Hymn 5 is titled To You Who Rest in God’s Abode and

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  • Wise Women: Part One

    I peered through the bracken, staring at the smoke coming from the little cottage just deep enough into the woods that you couldn’t see it from the clearing. The mossy, rich smell of earth and wet leaves filled my nostrils as I crouched behind the fallen tree, mustering the courage to creep forward. I knew

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  • During Lent, I’ll be writing six hymns that capture the spirit of reflection for the season. I will publish them on Sunday mornings. All the hymns will be set to well known tunes, so they will be easily shareable and singable upon reading. Hymn 4 is titled Praise God Who Comforts All My Pains and

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  • Promise

    There is a very slow blooming bud On the flowering cactus you gifted me A sign of promise and expectation A reminder that no one Can see the future. I watch it daily though it’s color seems hardly to change Wondering when and praying over and over How long oh Lord? As the prophet wrote,

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  • During Lent, I’ll be writing six hymns that capture the spirit of reflection for the season. I will publish them on Sunday mornings. All the hymns will be set to well known tunes, so they will be easily shareable and singable upon reading. Hymn 3 is titled Be Balm and Sweet Relief and uses the

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  • 10/18/22 2:11 pm Hey sis. Did you talk to dad? Not today. Why? He ok? uh… well idk. What do you know about what’s going on with him and Bobby? His neighbor? The pharmacy guy? Yeah, him. Did you know they got into a fight? About what? Jessica Oh. That doesn’t sound good. I’ll call

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  • During Lent, I’ll be writing six hymns that capture the spirit of reflection for the season. I will publish them on Sunday mornings. All the hymns will be set to well known tunes, so they will be easily shareable and singable upon reading. Hymn 2 is titled Man of Sorrows and uses the same tune

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  • Winter is unending The sun hidden  Beneath perpetual gray And warmth, if it shows itself, Is fleeting Like spring blossoms Here for now and Then Gone again.  And pain is like that too Each hurt an endless ocean Pocketed by islands of relief A word, a smile, a touch From someone who loves you And

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  • During Lent, I’ll be writing six hymns that capture the spirit of reflection for the season. I will publish them on Sunday mornings. All the hymns will be set to well known tunes, so they will be easily shareable and singable upon reading. Hymn 1 is titled Sit in Silence and in Prayer and uses

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  • Trash

    How easily you threw me away With the rest of the thoughts that made you Confront yourself and ask What is wrong with me? What was wrong with me That you deemed me Unusable, unsalvageable, unwanted Trash And discarded me like the thoughts you couldn’t think The feelings you couldn’t feel And the facts you

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