Monthly Archives: December 2013

January Colton Dixon – A Messenger Jason Castro – Only A Mountain   February Moriah Peters – I Choose Jesus Alex Band – After the Storm   March Laura Mvula – Sing To The Moon   Raine Maida – We … Continue reading →

You Who Never Arrived You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don’t even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of … Continue reading →

Cold Poem Cold now. Close to the edge. Almost unbearable. Clouds bunch up and boil down from the north of the white bear. This tree-splitting morning I dream of his fat tracks, the lifesaving suet. I think of summer with … Continue reading →

A Little Poem A happy vicar I might have been Two hundred years ago To preach upon eternal doom And watch my walnuts grow; But born, alas, in an evil time, I missed that pleasant haven, For the hair has … Continue reading →

  I Choose the Mountain   The low lands call I am tempted to answer They are offering me a free dwelling Without having to conquer The massive mountain makes its move Beckoning me to ascend A much more difficult … Continue reading →

Forest rain   What blessed yet terrible rain everywhere, With crosses and signs now streaking the air, Earth with small streams by the thousand. Glittering globes of refreshing, cool rain Thud to the earth in a playful refrain, Splintering into … Continue reading →

Originally posted on ittakeslove:
I think I’ve always believed myself an Old Soul. From the time I was conscious of the decision, I have been alone, and preferably so. I received many curious comments as a young child, because I…

All Hallows Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen sleep in their blue yoke, the fields having been picked clean, the sheaves bound evenly and piled at the roadside among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon rises: … Continue reading →