Twitter is a strange and wonderful thing but as a writer of faith it presents me with a very serious ethical dilemma: do I play the game and invest time and/or money to create the illusion that I am much more popular and important than I am, or do I let my little blog andContinue reading “Why I’ll never have 5K followers”
Category Archives: Wisdom
Daughters
I have so many friends raising girls right now that I thought I would share with them this small, perfect poem—a guidepost if ever there was one—by the gifted poet, Mark Jarman. A Prayer for our Daughters May they never be lonely at parties Or wait for mail from people they haven’t written Or stillContinue reading “Daughters”
I want to believe
“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, justContinue reading “I want to believe”
The Passion by Patty Wickman
This was the very first image of the very first Renaissance Service I ever did. Folks entered a candlelit sanctuary w/ this image projected on a photographer’s seamless on the altar…as if to say “Come unto me, all who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
A Poet’s Glance at Random Acts of Kindness
GIFT For a hundred miles the fields have worn beards of ugly stubble and night is falling and you can’t find a lover, not on AM or FM, and the hand at the toll booth wears a glove so as not to touch you. You pay for yourself, then for the car behind you, soContinue reading “A Poet’s Glance at Random Acts of Kindness”
Heather Choate Davis 