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: Light
The Beauty of Advent
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”
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”
The Fruit of Light
As I write this, it is the shortest day of the year. Where I live in North Dakota, that means that it will be dark for 15 hours and 44 minutes of the day. It makes the Christmas lights twinkle all the more bravely. In winter, it is also difficult to come by good fruit.Continue reading “The Fruit of Light”
Sarah Dixon Young 