Gentle words bring life
Perversity comes in
Living spirit smashed.
(Based on Proverbs 15:4)
I’m almost afraid to write about how one can learn and teach from stories, because I think a piece of literature requires only one justification–that somebody wants to read it. Come to think of it, it may need only that someone enjoys writing it. I’m an extreme anti-snob in literature. I enjoy some very light…
“I’d like the sandwich you have in that bag.” It was the odd way he said it and the foreign accent that made her stop and look to her left. He was sitting on the sidewalk with his back to the wall. He looked thin, and his clothes were worn, but generally clean and carefully…
In everything, give thanks. At every time, even when it’s time to do something unpleasant, In every place, even where you don’t want to go, In every way, even sometimes in ways you find strange, For every one, even the people you really don’t like, For every privilege, even those you’d rather not acknowledge, For…
My wife handed me this book because she has been trying to get me to read one of [tag]Francine Rivers[/tag]’ stories about various Bible characters. I’m generally a bit slow to pick up this sort of book because production of a good story is very difficult. On the one hand you can stick closely to…
OK, this is playing around. The first is a translation with some freedom, but with an effort to convey just a little bit of the rhythm of the Hebrew. It needs some more work. The second is just me having some fun with rhyme and meter, a practice I can always use. I look up…
