“To live in this single moment,
this lightest breath, this softest touch,
to be captured by this smallest, this briefest space of time,
to be fully present, alive, consumed by this instant alone,
this is truly living.”

~ Jim Pendley

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Have you ever let your heart run free in a snowfall?

Lifted your face to the sky, your hands to

the One, who made it all?

Snowflakes are prayers really

as nature prays for us

to be quiet

and just

be, in the snow.

Poetry and Image © Copyright 2017, ancient skies

(the front window pane smashed)

The majority of the posts I write are written the day before they are posted.
Yesterday and the day before that were no exception.

Witnessing the surreal angst raging across this nation, Saint Velimirovich’s quote
seemed to best capture the correct Christian response…

“the world is a sick man whom sin has made sick…

as this pious cleric reminds us that…

“sin is the sickness and to scorn sinners is to scorn the sick.”

And therefore a healer is needed and we are to pray for the sinner…

Little did I realize how much those words were to resonate in
my own heart on a very personal level….

Saturday night we had been out to eat with friends…
It was just before midnight when we finally climbed into bed, ready to call it a day…
that the phone rang.

Calls in the night are never…