Christianity – innocence abroad

go look, and see

By: littlepeace April 29, 2019April 30, 2019

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go look at the flowers of the field —

we are all like peter

By: littlepeace April 21, 2019April 21, 2019

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do you love Me, friend? do you love Me, dear peter? oh, do you love Me? it’s Easter morning and we are all like peter — what will you reply?

the wood between the worlds

By: littlepeace April 4, 2019April 5, 2019

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it was raining this morning the sort of slow, gentle soaker that requires windshield wipers and raincoats and encourages the grass to green but when i left the office in the blueing evening only one lonely puddle remained in the empty parking lot as i walked toward my car i caught a glimpse of tree…

Letters from the Wilderness: 1

By: littlepeace March 6, 2019March 6, 2019

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Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. The true King is coming; your delusions of rule have no place here.

on the brink of a barren land

By: littlepeace March 5, 2019March 6, 2019

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here i stand on the edge
of wildness
on the cusp
of wilderness
on the brink
of a barren land

All Thy love accepting

By: littlepeace February 16, 2019

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Let me, all Thy love accepting,
Love Thee, ever all my days …

An extravagance of snowflakes

By: littlepeace February 8, 2019

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Winter doesn’t always bring snow to my neck of the Middle West. Sometimes we get freezing rain, sometimes we get 60-degree days in February, and sometimes we just have long stretches of frigid weather where the ground turns rock-hard and the faces of the limestone bluffs become encrusted with stalactites of ice. But this season the snow has visited us again – three times before winter even officially started, and twice more since the new year.