Gentle Words
Gentle words bring life
Perversity comes in
Living spirit smashed.
(Based on Proverbs 15:4)
Gentle words bring life
Perversity comes in
Living spirit smashed.
(Based on Proverbs 15:4)
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…
A path goes by Along a gas line bare. Short grass grows or dies. Garbage gathers. The pole stands alone. Does the pole dream of rows of poles carrying telegrams then phone calls or perhaps electricity? Does the pole wonder why gas flows below why a person walks by why a truck dumps trash why…
Faith sitting like stone Floats in, energizing love Filling lively rock (Inspired by Galatians 5:6; James 2:17; 1 Peter 2:5.) (Image elements courtesy of OpenClipart.org.)
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…
Asaf’s Song Yahweh, God over gods spoke Summoning the world from farthest east to utter west. From Zion, his perfect beauty Blazes out everywhere. Our God is coming, and will not be silenced Devouring fire leads, Powerful wind surrounds. He calls to the skies above and the ground below to judge his people. Gather to…
“Arise! Shine! Your light has come! [Isaiah 60:1] Bah!” said the man with the white hair and long beard.1 “So you didn’t really like what the prophet said,” answered the other, somewhat younger man. “Oh, the words were pretty. He’s a good talker, no doubt. But what do you think?” He looked down the road….