“Lazy mosquito” is an oxymoron. The critter is anything but lazy. Mosquitos are tiny, almost weightless, extremely busy creatures. Airborne pests who make stealth landings. The only way you know they are there is when they circumnavigate your head. Their wings beat 250 times a second, creating a buzz which may well correspond in ratio to the deafening noise made by an Apache helicopter. Continue Reading »
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Take me through a vortex in your heart
That whirlpool of crushing revelation
And blackhole of abandoned trust.
Completely absorb
The mass that is me by the gravity that is you. Continue Reading »
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THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
“Stand here in the cleft of the rock and I will show you . . . my back.”
I once heard a chilling quote made but cannot remember the author. The proposition was this: “What if the God we think we know is not the God who is?” I wonder if that is what Moses thought when he saw God’s back? This is not the face of God, so God must be somewhat different from what I am seeing.
This causes me to question my own revelation of God as well as that presented by the church Sunday after Sunday. We may be seeing God from a perspective which He has – or some reason – limited us to. If this is true, then we need to ask ourselves why. Continue Reading »
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All my grandparents died before I was born. For half a century I went without ever seeing a photograph of my maternal grandfather, Elias Jones Massey, my namesake. I never knew I was named after him until a few years ago. I only knew of him as Elias Massey, nothing of Jones. Therefore, I thought my lastname firstname was a mistake, an anomaly, or even worse, a punishment. Continue Reading »
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I treasure going into my backyard and making a fire in our clay fire-bowl which sits on the deck next to our banana garden. It’s where I go to slow the world down and watch as the stars stop spinning, the refuge where I talk to God and try to hear his heart through the hiss and crackling, to see more clearly through the dancing flames and the liquid gray smoke. Continue Reading »
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We have France to thank for the meter. The French were not too keen on using England’s standard yard – the distance from King Henry’s nose to his outstretched middle finger. (Wonder why?) So French scientists spent ten years measuring the distance from the equator to the North Pole to find Continue Reading »
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Prayer I delivered August 21st at Fort Worth Independent School District Convocation 2007
Almighty God, be with our nation and our armed forces during this time of war. Bless this convocation and give us the wisdom to lead these young people. Protect our nation from terrorism from without and moral decay from within. Comfort us in times of national crisis. Do not forget us, O God, and help us not to forget you. For yours is the glory, and the honor, and the power! Forever, Amen!
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If I knew I were dying, how would I feel? Would all of life around me suddenly change, and everything at once become that strange adjective – poignant? Why, the very air would be filled with tiny visible carbonated bubbles which would sizzle as I passed through them on my way to anywhere. Continue Reading »
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Red is the color of the planet Mars
Volcanic anger and giant-gas stars
Ruby lips tasting cherry wine
Twelve roses waiting in a check-out line Continue Reading »
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