Black Friday Blues The one-day sale inflated my morning with a blast of urgency. Trying to figure out how to adapt the thing I wanted to my home my home to it had me darting about all day frantic as a balloon losing air. Now I and the bag with my return are lying limp… Continue reading Black Friday Blues
The (not so) secret message of Christmas Unto us a child is given. O come let us adore Him! Yea, Lord, we greet Thee Emmanuel; His name is called Emmanuel. Veiled in flesh the God-head see. O holy night! Light and life to all He brings. I wonder as I wander. © 2013 by Violet… Continue reading The (not so) secret message of Christmas
This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith & Life by Gavin MacLeod My rating: 4 of 5 stars "My life has taken one incredible turn after another. I've gotten to do what I wanted to do, I've been a captain! I've traveled the world. ... I've been given this incredible gift… Continue reading This Is Your Captain Speaking (review)
Mother Bear I am the one who puts oatmeal on the list so that we will not have a morning without porridge. I am the one who cooks it stirring its volcano bubbles from gruel to a thick predictable pudding. I am the one who dishes it into bowls -- large, medium, small then calls… Continue reading Mother Bear
Pose Frozen in precarious leap balanced on chair-leg tilt— push that chair! Engineer a Photoshop escape. ******************** Yesterday's prompt at Poetic Asides was an ekphrastic poem, based on a photo. We were given four photo choices on the site, or invited to use our own. The shadorma, above, is based on one of the suggested… Continue reading Pose
The Custodian The coffee cups we take into the sanctuary she sees as spots to scrub from the carpet later. On youth night she braces herself for toilets plugged with paper towel sinks clogged with toilet paper. The inconspicuous, numberless door in the hallway we’ve never really noticed— she has the key to it could… Continue reading The Custodian
We've entered November--the month in which we set aside a special day to remember our country's soldiers. In Canada we call it Remembrance Day. We commemorate by wearing flocked red poppies in the weeks leading up to November 11th and on the day, gathering at cenotaphs throughout the country to lay wreaths, pray prayers, and… Continue reading November prompt – remember
Match November is the month for poems to hatch I hope to incubate a healthy batch in fisher-talk, haul in a bumper catch till there’s no room to store them in the hatch. My problem is, these poems don’t hit me natch I always seem to need a key or latch I’ll count on Brewer’s… Continue reading “Match” and writing challenges
Return to Me by Lynn Austin My rating: 4 of 5 stars In Return to Me Lynn Austin returns to writing in the genre--biblical fiction--where I first met her. This story is set in the time of the exile and follows the priest Iddo and his son Zacharias as their family returns to a ravished… Continue reading Return to Me (review)
John MacArthur's Strange Fire Conference of just over a week ago was a bit of a shaker to the evangelical culture of North America and England. In it MacArthur and his colleagues at Grace To You Church in California argued, based on their cessationist beliefs (the interpretation of the Bible that says that the Holy… Continue reading How the #StrangeFire conference confirms my continuationism
Violet Nesdoly 