Take not the seat of the scorner, nor give yourselves up to a mere curiosity in religion. Go not where Christ is preached, to laugh and be amused. Go not to hear, day after day, truths of unutterable solemnity, only that you may know how various are the modes in which that may be said,… Continue reading wise words from the past
Who is the third who walks always beside you?When I count, there are only you and I togetherBut when I look ahead up the white roadThere is always another one walking beside youGliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hoodedI do not know whether a man or a woman—But who is that on the other side… Continue reading Eliot’s “Wasteland” – Who is my 3rd?
Where We Started THE STORY OF CHRIST is where we all started from, though we've come so far since then that there are times when you'd hardly know it to listen to us and when we hardly know it ourselves. The story of Christ is what once, somehow and somewhere, we came to Christ through.… Continue reading Where We Started – Buechner
from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-timeBY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH—Was it for thisThat one, the fairest of all Rivers, lov'dTo blend his murmurs with my Nurse's song,And from his alder shades and rocky falls,And from his fords and shallows, sent a voiceThat flow'd along my dreams? For this, didst Thou,O Derwent! travelling over the green… Continue reading Fair seed-time had my soul
Holy Saturday Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 Lamentations 3:1-9, 19-24 1 Peter 4:1-8Matthew 27:57-66 or John 19:38-42 Holy Saturday can sometimes get lost in both our theological imaginations as well as in our Easter preparations. The Saturday before Easter is understandably filled with pressing our best suits, laying out pastel dresses, and maybe even stuffing plastic eggs… Continue reading St Mark’s Lenten Thoughts: Holy Saturday
The Carpenter's Nail 