Louie was a dog with a serious side, being of German extraction. Playing ‘fetch’ was no game. It was growling serious that he ‘win’, that he possess that stick and keep it from lying lost on the lawn or being snatched away from him…This was his work and there was nothing playful in it. He […]
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Ps.91:1 Here in the Shadow—Shannon Wexelberg The autumn rains have returned. I plunked a Vitamin D capsule by my cereal bowl this morning. We are braced for a change in weather. In other ways this is […]
On an otherwise unfettered day, content to be at home extracting the last days of summer’s leisure before the pace of fall kicks in…I am troubled by a gloomy companion, a faithless crony that rides on my shoulder under the name of Great Expectations. (Not to be confused with Dickens’ book by that name which […]
I’ve been brought back to the old hymns lately. It’s taken some weeks of pulling away from contemporary tunes and lyrics to begin to hear the old ones singing in my head again. But I need the old ones. I need their eternal no-nonsense perspective. When I wake stiff-necked, when the old body just ain’t […]
The very best chunk of the day is that delicious morning part before the rest of my ‘world’ gets up—when all is quiet on the home front and I slip out of bed on tiptoe to curl up with my favorite fleece and my Bible, and yes of course, with my journal and pen. It […]