music of the spheres
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Sing!
“God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good” (Gen. 1:31a). Today is Trinity Sunday. It celebrates an idea Jesus never taught; that wasn’t mentioned in scripture until fifty years or more after his resurrection; that took another 300 years of debate and coalition building to become doctrine; that wasn’t observed Continue reading
a slight sound at evening, Aldous Huxley, As You Like It, books in running brooks, creation, doctrine, Duke Senior, God in three persons, God's first scripture, good in everything, Holy Trinity, Leaves of Grass, music of the spheres, persona, sermons in stone, Shakespeare, sing a song, The Carpenters, Thomas Merton, Thoreau, tongues in trees, Trinity Sunday, Walt Whitman -
Shutting the door
“Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it’s the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6)” (Sue Monk Kidd). Lent is not far away, beginning in just under three weeks with Ash Wednesday on Continue reading
The Sauntering Pilgrim 