a life incredible, vivid, excellent.
In much of the Northern Hemisphere the days are growing shorter, colder; the darkness catches us off guard with its earliness. The trees have passed their peak of autumn splendor and now are giving up their withered leaves one by one; the flowers are fading fast; the browning grass is going to sleep until the spring. All nature is making the long descent into winter, to the longest night of the year, but we humans rage against this dying of the light.
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tell us, bethlehem
how the King will come —
enfleshed in the frame of a
child obscure?
the Healer comes
on wings of dawn
your woeful wounds
on Him He takes
o Love gentle, patient, kind
make us once more wholly Thine
against a gray and gloomy sky
the crimson oak leaves wildly wave
they’ll drift into an early grave
forgotten by the passers-by
when i was a child
i wanted all the answers
thinking if i knew what was ahead
the waiting somehow surely would be easier
two syllables turn despair back to delight
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today the warmth returned
and the blond-haired boys were
running wild through beds
of brittle hydrangea
and barren rose canes
when the littlest
still unsteady on his feet
caught his teddybear bib on a thorn
This year my half birthday falls on Good Friday; I will be halfway through my 33rd year. I’ve thought a lot about Jesus over these past six months, wondering what human life was like for Him, wondering whether He started counting down the days to the cross, knowing full well what was coming.
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look, light has broken
on the darkened world
vanished is the lonely night —
eternity dawns