The long view
An abundance of horizon draws our gaze, delineates our days here at our rock-fast retirement center at the shore. Well-seasoned eyes seem..
J. Barrie Shepherd is an award-winning poet and an honorably retired PC(USA) pastor, the author of many books.
An abundance of horizon draws our gaze, delineates our days here at our rock-fast retirement center at the shore. Well-seasoned eyes seem..
Those head bindings rolled and laid aside in a separate place, the way the sympathetic gardener gently calls her by her name,..
There comes a point, halfway between the ashes and the lilies, when you stop and ask yourself “Just how did I get..
These Lenten days are loaned to us, set aside – beg, borrow or steal – from winter’s numbing latterness so we remember..
Gratitude is the way to go. Not only with the daily stuff – that too, of course – but at the end,..
Full body search, and scan unlock intimidating gates toward the so-called Welcome Center of the Federal Maximum Security Facility, in a late..
Amid sheepish shepherds, embarrassed kings, awkward angels with their bent-coat-hanger wings – my most unforgettable character is the tender-hearted lad assigned to..
An invitation to go deeper, to penetrate the hard-worn surface of our habitual this-and-that, permit entry to images, suggestions, even fears that..
Black Friday opened up before Halloween this year, and the customary counselors are predicting drastic shortages, delays and empty shelves. The supply..
To Give Thanks… is to remember how it feels to experience belonging, to look long around a laden table and be glad..
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