a beating heart like a synchronized swimmer doing butterfly flapping flapping flapping flapping like typing four letters on a keyboard click click click click I see inside her inside him and find the whole world in an ultrasound probe
Bellyached Beauty
Beauty.Beauty is believing.Beauty is bowing down.Beauty is the weary-hearted.Beauty is abandonment to His presence.Beauty is blood poured from the Cross to our hearts today.Beauty is breaking through the hard walls of our flesh to yield to Him.Beauty bellyaches to the Lord, longing for His warmth in a cold Earth.Beauty builds our spirits up in the […]
Formless and Void
God loves space and I, sitting on my couchfail to comprehend. Perhaps matter and grace strain to catch the imperceptible pace of divine thought ringing out in patter,‘In the beginning was the world, spatter and spume encompassed. And God was before it: a beginning without end.’ God loves space and made much of it.Is it distance, then, that […]
Dr. William Edgar on Art, Faith, and Beauty
Dr. William Edgar is Emeritus Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. A renowned writer, apologist, and Harvard trained musicologist and pianist, Dr. Edgar’s books include Reasons of the Heart and A Supreme Love: The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel. Our conversation ranged a wide gamut of important issues, from […]
Rooted Firmly
He knew her before He formed her, and she was beautiful [1]. A mother caresses her swollen belly and anticipates the coming day that her flower will enter into this world. Brushstrokes on birchwood, silver needle and sky-blue thread, the nursery is almost ready. Rosebud lips and golden tendrils of hair that shine as […]
A Letter To The Anxious and Weary At Heart
Dear friend, It’s been a hard year, hasn’t it? I see you, curled up alone on the floor of your bedroom, stifling your sobs with your hand so your family doesn’t hear. I see you, sitting numbly at your desk chair, wondering what all of this is for. I see you because I’m you, years […]