The Slice that Cuts Once you grasp the fleetingness of life — and it dawns on you in tiny increments as you grow — you are always savoring the sweetness of living and vitality of those living around you, family and friends who join your journey and increase its treasure. Yet on some indefinable level…
Category: Culture
Threes, Fours, and Thousands
Threes, Fours, and Thousands If eternity is discovered in multiples of threes and the perishing in multiples of fours, then some things will remain and others will burn. The triune God revealed in the one form of Jesus is the foundation of all that is unchangeable and built upon a seven-branched candelabra, the 12 tribes,…
Resisting Ceremony
Resisting Ceremony There is something in the conceit of youthfulness that resists ceremony. Maybe I am a middle-aged woman who still dresses up for church, remembers the Pilgrims on Thanksgiving Day, recites the pledge of allegiance to my country with joy and pride and thinks that formal observance transcends post-modern culture. I am a one who…
Creative Synapases
Creative Synapses My creative synapses will make sense to me someday. They will not sputter in chaotic release, release, yes, but that utterance of halting expression which I must tame and strengthen to the core will one day flow in order. Ideas that I must now systematize and pull and push into place, stuffing into…
Hope for Today
Hope for Today With crack and flash of lighting sliver, the Caption of the Host of Heaven shall appear in golden clouds. With roughed shofar’s resounding blast and harmonious angelic anthem, He shall sweep His harvest home, nations, tribes, and tongues. Upward the redeemed shall speed through deepest space upon that beam of Holy Light,…
The Brawl That Ended It
A very short children’s allegory about the seasons and life and death…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 