Steer Your Way – Sept. 21, 2022
Steer your way past the ruins of the altar and the mallSteer your way through the fables of creation and the fallSteer your way past the palaces that rise above the rotYear by year, month by month, day by dayThought by thought They whisper still, the ancient stonesThe blunted mountains weepAs he died to make […]
You Let Me Sing – Sept. 20, 2022
“You let me sing, you lifted me up, you have my soul a beam to travel on. You folded your distance back into my heart. You drew the tears back to my eyes. You hid me in the mountain of your word. You gave the injury a tongue to heal itself. You covered my head […]
Suzanne – Sept. 19, 2022
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the waterAnd he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden towerAnd when he knew for certain only drowning men could see himHe said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free themBut he himself was broken, long before the sky would […]
What Can I Give?
As the door slammed, I froze, seeing my keys locked inside our Volvo. Which was built like a tank. Safe. Secure. Very hard to unlock, because the mechanism was a sliding bolt down near the handle. And I was standing, stunned, in a French parking lot near Avignon with two teenage visitors whom I hardly […]