Little Chief Joy-Bringer
If perchance, I would awaken from a nap to the sight of four or five adult family members gathered around my bed, all staring down at me and grinning from ear to ear…my initial reaction would be not be a pleasant one, for sure.
Am I the butt of some practical joke? My nakedness uncovered?…
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What Does Evil Wear?
WHAT DOES EVIL WEAR?
What does evil wear? It’s easy to spot, of course.
Evil wears swastika patches, clipped mustaches In goose-stepping show of force
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Young Again (the poem)
For several years, a poem simmered deep inside me. I can’t remember the exact moment the words entered my consciousness, but I recall repeating them over and over to myself when doing the farm chores and elsewhere. I shall be young again…I shall be young again… Becoming a dad is, without a doubt, one of…
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Who is the Greatest?
As a teenager, I was part of a small group of friends who started a literature publication called the “Pen Upon the Paper”. We wrote poetry, prose, and short stories which were published in our little paper along with our critiques of each others’ work. Our little paper, which actually gained a few subscribers (mostly…
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The Suffering Servant
Jesus of Nazareth climbs up the muddy banks of the Jordan river and sets his gaze towards the wasteland. What awaits him are wild beasts, physical and spiritual alike.
Millenia before, the first man and the mother of all living were gifted a luscious paradise to dwell in. In close proximity to their Creator and…
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Fairlight
We were a typical starry-eyed newlywed couple dreaming about the future. In a hazy honeymoon memory, I recall leaning against a hotel balcony alongside my lovely new wife, in the darkness somewhere on the east coast of Florida, discussing baby names. My wife has a different memory; one that apparently got wiped from my internal…
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Recycled Stardust
Last week, I took my family to visit the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum near our nation’s capital. We walked through the huge hangars which are packed with real historical pieces of mankind’s great 20th century invention: air travel and space exploration. They have it all there at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center- From the…
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Do You Feel Small Enough?
Sometimes, when I want to feel smaller than I already do, I walk outside to the night sky and look up. First, my eyes are distracted by the steady-moving unblinking low-orbit satellites that constantly crisscross our modern skies. Yeah, Elon, you’re pretty impressive! Mankind has taken some giant leaps, indeed. But I’m looking for something…
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Of Putt-Putts and Parenting
Growing up on a dairy farm, our first introduction to driving farm equipment was the Ford 860, an iconic little red & white tractor built in the 1950’s. Ours was equipped with a 6-foot box-scraper attached to its rear three-point hitch for the purpose of scraping the barnyard. She went by various names: Pop called…
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The Holy Child
Christ is first revealed to the sleeping world in the form of a newborn baby. This version of Jesus is, by far, the most palatable to the world at large. For it is only the most degraded, demonic dregs of humanity which are not in some way inwardly softened by the sight and sound of…
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