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Melancholy Angels

In my years of writing, I’ve not paid much attention to angels. I’ve never knowingly encountered one — knowingly, I say, for how could I tell for certain? Supernatural go-betweens, angels operate in the invisible world, rarely revealing themselves to those of us who occupy the material world. I think of angels as something like … Read more

Hope Amid the Gloom

To startled shepherds an angel announced, “Do not be afraid.  I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.”  I must admit, as 2017 comes to an end I’m not sensing much joy and good news.  Instead, a spirit of fear and division hangs like a cloud over the year.  … Read more

Snow on Snow

Have you entered the storehouses of the snow             or seen the storehouses of the hail… From whose womb comes the ice?             Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens when the waters become hard as stone,             when the surface of the deep is frozen?                                                 (Job 38:22, 29-30)   We moved … Read more