“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

—Emily Dickinson

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  • It Has Made All the Difference

      And it has made all the difference … Certainly and absolutely, one of my favorite poems since youth, my musical knowledge was deficit in not knowing that one of my favorite choral composers, Randall Thompson, had created a musical… Continue reading

  • Deliver Me

      If you live in this world, you have a calling – to find some way to function with the other people who live in this world. The challenge is that some of them – God bless them – are… Continue reading

  • Three Secrets of Singing to God

    “Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.” – Psalm 33:3 There are three things that God reminds us of today that He would like for us to offer Him in worship. The first is newness.… Continue reading

  • Random Reruns

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  • There is no tangibility without vulnerability. That is the down side of incarnation. The message must be delivered to tangible thinkers in flesh as embodied truth. The upside is that vulnerability invites tangibility like no other force. Continue reading

  • By Our Side

      Where are you going?We ask ourselves.We ask the same of Jesus.Shall we skip the road with Him, dare ourselves, and walk with pebbles in our shoes? Call the pebble, "dare." How about it? What is the new road? Where… Continue reading

  • What is Real?

    We have raised a generation on "reality" TV who believe that it somehow, actually represents reality. Some, young and old, have bought the notion that meanness, pettiness, ruthlessness, narcissism, lack of civility, and vindictiveness are norms for human communities to… Continue reading

  • Do I worry? I confess that I fret. I get in a hurry … to worry …

    In the hurry to worry I get nothing done, Continue reading