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Humdudgeon
What happened? When did I grow old?My back it aches, my feet are coldMy money, hard-earned, I must sayBecomes my doctor’s monthly payDon’t get me started on the newsOr that I need new winter shoesMy coffee’s cold, my dog it shedsAwake all night I’m in my bedI saw on Facebook Susie flewWith her new hubs… Read more
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Of Pencil Plans and Lasting Letters
She gently ran her index finger along the sharpened point of the pencil I held out to her. She looked at me as if I had brought her a bag of gold. “How did you get this pencil to be so sharp?”She was 81 and my boss. I smiled and knew I scored – big… Read more
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Enough!
Be gone, O gloom, from heart and mind!Has your God died, not death defied?Give heed to what you see and hear –The bird on porch, the sky so clear.Hold to the Truth you once proclaimed,When first the Gospel you unchained,When all of you knew deepest joy,When eyes and ears exposed gloom’s ploy.Don’t now go back… Read more
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A Tiger in the Nativity
“Cynicism is so pervasive that, at times, it feels like a presence. Behind the spirit of the age lies an unseen, personal evil presence, a spirit. If Satan can’t stop you from praying then he will try to rob the fruit of praying by dulling your soul.” — Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life “How… Read more
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Of Getting Caught and Letting Go
She must have fallen in the well sometime during the night. Her tiny body lay curled up and exhausted in the dusty gravel. Daybreak revealed her to my husband as he sat down in his office chair to make his morning calls. When I walked in to talk to him about something, he pointed to… Read more
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Of What If’s and the I AM — A Prayer
I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because… Read more
Heidi Viars 