I don’t often put my poetry on here for various reasons, but some of my dear ones are going through a tough time, and this one expresses my heart:
Psalm 34:18 “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
There are days when God takes this child
Through a storm so strong [...]
Archive for January, 2009
23 Jan
Storm
21 Jan
how to say absolutely nothing with as many words as possible
My sister sent me this dire message last night:
help me understand my college assignments! From tonight’s reading: “It follows from this that to understand a text must be to understand both the intention to be understood, and the intention that this intention should be understood, which the text itself as an intended act of communication [...]
19 Jan
Thank you, Mr. President
Nearly completely lost in the adoring (worshipful?) coverage of the pre-inaguaration events is the fact that today is Mr. Bush’s last day in office. This makes sense for a few obvious reasons – we are a forward-looking country, the media loves (loves, loves) Barack Obama, and the media hates (hates, hates) George Bush.
So I want to [...]
12 Jan
Baby, it’s COLD outside!
Ah, this is the time of year when it’s good to be a Philadelphia sports fan, but not good to live any further north than, well, Texas. I was walking to work this morning when the air was still and the ambient temperature (i.e. not including wind chill) was six degrees. And I found myself [...]
6 Jan
a microcosm of life’s changes
This evening I went over to the Marquette University library and checked out Good Morning, Little Fox.
And thought about how doing so perfectly shows the dramatic shifts in my life over the last year – from grad school to elementary school, from spending most of my days with adults to spending most of my days [...]
5 Jan
the Philadelphia sports complex
It’s gone . . . at least for now. After the Phils took the World Series in October, I no longer feel like we can never ever win anything.
So, despite the extremely low prospects that the Eagles will break through and win the Super Bowl in a month, it doesn’t feel like such a crazy [...]
3 Jan
a choice
My failures and the hardness of life in a disappointing and sin-sick world - these are the things that often capture my mind when I have too-long breaks. Because they are difficult to dwell on, I attempt to drown them out with many “doings” that are not necessarily productive or profitable. But sometimes the music [...]
1 Jan
Good verses
to start a new year on:
Philippians 3:12-14
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and [...]
