By the time you read this, it will be May Day. We will have had our April showers, and I will be thinking about what and how and when to plant my garden. Watching the rain fall outside the window, I have alternately thought about the gloomy children in The Cat in the Hat andContinue reading “April Showers”
Tag Archives: Darkness
Here Hovering
It’s 3:30am on Sunday, and I am awake. The phone has buzzed several times, and I know it is darkness calling. Saturday night is attack time for the enemy. The Father of lies saves his best ones for Saturday nights to try to pollute the chance of Sunday morning resurrection. Sickness, sin, death, and theContinue reading “Here Hovering”
The Substance of Hope
The hope of catching a fish keeps the fisherman casting, but it isn’t what he eats for his supper. The substance of hope- the outcome of it- is the tangible result that fills his belly. This summer, my kids have done a lot of fishing. They have probably hoped more than they’ve caught, but theContinue reading “The Substance of Hope”
Death in the Pot
There are some pictures too ugly to paint with words. I recently visited a friend who is homeless and suicidal. While speaking with my friend, I remembered times past when I sat beside the ICU bed of first her father and then her mother whose organs shut down after lifetimes of habitual drugContinue reading “Death in the Pot”
Keep Watching
Jesus was dead. All was darkness. The greatest surprise I ever experienced happened in the dark. My father and I were sitting on a boat in the ocean. We were far enough from land that we couldn’t see any light, and both of us were gazing toward the eastern horizon. Thousands of miles away layContinue reading “Keep Watching”
Sarah Dixon Young 