I feel like I’m learning how to read again. Since I’ve become an English major, books have become a strange way of life. Of course, reading and literature has always had a huge space in my life, but now, as a student of words and paragraphs and metaphors, they have become this unsciencey-science. Books are [...]
Archive for March, 2008
reading writer; read, write, write and read, writer.
Posted in books, personal, writing, tagged annie dillard, books, fiction, reading, still life with woodpecker, the terminally ill, tom robbins, tune out, writing on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
just like the song says
Posted in christianity, life, personal, tagged Easter, faith, Jesus, life on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have a hard time letting go.
I needed to write that down. Confess it. I like to think I welcome change and growth in my friends, family, the world and in myself, but it’s not necessarily true. I cling to my past like a life preserver in knee-deep water. All those thoughts, all those feelings…sometimes [...]
I should never miss Him
Posted in christianity, personal, quotes, religion, tagged church, faith, God, Isaiah on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just when I thought spring would never come, God delivers a gorgeous day. I even got up to go to church today.
They sang this song that has the line take the coal/cleanse my lips/here I am. Every time I hear it the image is so stark and gorgeous. It’s magical and real. Words can’t explain [...]