How do we identify people and things? There is a naming convention tied to experiences that we have as well as persons named whom we encounter. My name is Thomas. I don’t know how much that says about “me.” I am writing a reflection right now on a computer. …
SCATTERING BABEL
It’s difficult to be in a place wherein the majority if not all of the people around you are speaking another language – one that you don’t understand. I remember distinctly some experiences I had in Germany while I was on a graduate exchange program. …
LOVE’S BOW
“This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come, of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you: I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.”…
Baptizing Blindness
Eye look around and see it everywhere.
Such sadness, much hate, such indifference, much grief,
Such violent discounting of precious Lifeflow,
Much ignorant blind-heartedness, such scared-ness enraged.
Innocence and Wisdom trafficked in purpose
The pornography of conscience in slavery and sex.…
THE PATIENT TOUCH
“At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark, and he sent out a raven, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth…
Then he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.…