I used to think this time of year, after the leaves fall and before the snow flies, was ugly. The bleak grayness of the barren landscape would depress me . I saw no beauty in the brown undergrowth or the skeletal trees standing against the gray sky. In recent years, however, I’ve come to discover […]
Devotional
Starlight and the Bible: Hidden Jewels
The deep blue of the night sky hung over me like a seamless piece of velvet as I dashed out to my car to get some tissue paper I had stashed in the trunk for my mother’s birthday the next day. As is my habit whenever I’m outside at night, I looked up at the […]
How to Sing When You’d Rather Scream
Last week I fought the grumpies for a couple of days. As I was in the midst of this battle one morning, the lower dishwasher rack came partially off the tracks on the door. It has the tendency to do this occasionally, and I have the tendency to be royally irked by it. Feeling my […]
The Purpose of Life Summed up on a Semi
The sun sank towards the horizon. I watched, soaking in the warm beauty of it as I chased it west through New York state, prolonging its descent. Its warm glow intensified and deepened from golden to orange as it bathed the earth in warm light and then left it cold and darkening, allowing nothing to […]