Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Nov 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for Flyleaf’s new album Memento Mori. Their first album was excellent, but they have topped themselves with their second. It’s kind of music that makes me want to dance and sing and cry. They understand life and sing about it in song-sized chunks. Pain, fear, glory, Heaven. The lead singer and [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Heaven on Nov 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
Today is Veteran’s Day. Today would be a great opportunity to give thanks for the men that have gone to war for our country.
But I don’t want to. I hope that doesn’t sound horrible, I really do. I have nothing against veterans and I do feel they should be honored as those who put [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
It’s always a frightening thing to reread a book you haven’t read for a while. We change so much sometimes in just a few years that a book that was once the beginning and end of catharsis for our emotional state is just whiny and dumb. The character who’d once stood on the pedestal of [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
This past Sunday was Life Chain Sunday, a day people from all over the country stand in silent protest of abortion. When I was growing up we participated each year. I remember being incredibly bored as a child and not really understanding what was going on. At some point it fell off our radar [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Heaven on Apr 28th, 2009 No Comments »
(Written last night)
So here I am. My Internet is down and keeps giving me fits. I’m trying trying trying to fix it so that I can do, I don’t know, something. Something interesting for about 30 minutes and then I can go to sleep. I’m tired, see. A deep, weary sort of tired. I’ve got [...]
Posted in All About Words, Life, Children and Dishes, Poems and Stories, Raquel, Thoughts About Heaven on Apr 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
This isn’t really the traditional baptismal blessing, but bits of this poem started coming during Hope’s baptism, and I don’t know why, but I think it’s for her.
Hope
It’s the tiny dying scream
of a heart that’s going down
It’s the never quite content
of a perfect day on earth
It’s the pain of Heaven’s call
when you’re trapped down [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Apr 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
Friday was a perfect day. The children and I spent most of it at friend’s house out in the sun. The sky was the shade of blue poets write about and the weather was like all the best days of spring come at once. We were with people who had asked us over so that [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Heaven on Mar 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Saturday a woman I knew in Erie died. Joyce was old and had had Alzheimer’s. She had been living in a nursing home, but was able to be home when she fell asleep. She’s in Heaven now with her Lord. Her mind is clear and her soul is spotless. She lived a long life here [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel, Thoughts About Heaven on Mar 11th, 2009 3 Comments »
I feel like this poem needs an introduction of some sort, but I don’t have one, so all I’ll say is that I wrote it after midnight, which probably explains anything odd about it.
I was in Your presence
with the glory of Your light
now the pews are emptying
and I’m back down on the earth.
We were caught [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Heaven on Mar 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
It is officially March (Happy March, everyone!) and with March has come the realization that winter will end soon. I really don’t like February. All of the weariness of short days and long stretches of darkness pile together and drag me down. But as bad as February is here I spent two weeks in an [...]