Category: Poetry
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› Read more: A Lesson in Bearing from John Milton
A Lesson in Bearing from John Milton
My sophomore year in high school, our English teacher introduced our class to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. While most people…
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› Read more: Auden, Suffering, and the Savior who Sees
Auden, Suffering, and the Savior who Sees
Suffering is strange. It comes upon us seeming to halt our private worlds while the world around continues to turn.…
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› Read more: Brothers Transformed
Brothers Transformed
Our two oldest sons are a whopping fourteen months apart–God’s timing, not our plans. These two are thick as thieves…
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› Read more: The Lion in the Hay
The Lion in the Hay
We spend four weeks preparing for the coming of the infant Jesus, as well we should. His coming changed everything…
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› Read more: A Better Act: Trading the Noisy Circus of the World for the Quiet Comforts for the Savior
A Better Act: Trading the Noisy Circus of the World for the Quiet Comforts for the Savior
Memory is a funny thing. We fuzzily remember some of life’s most important events while having crystal-clear recall of random…
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› Read more: Misplaced Affection
Misplaced Affection
I consider myself a generally tidy person. Most things in my life have a proper place and tend to be…
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› Read more: The Hum of the Household: Little Liturgies that Anchor Us in His Love
The Hum of the Household: Little Liturgies that Anchor Us in His Love
In his book You Are What You Love, James K.A. Smith writes, “Every household has a ‘hum,’ and that hum…
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› Read more: The Sharpening of Sabbath Rest
The Sharpening of Sabbath Rest
My teenagers use the slang grinding for hard, focused work, and I find that it fits. As they’ve been grinding…
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› Read more: Sovereignly Sorted: Contrarieties & Christ
Sovereignly Sorted: Contrarieties & Christ
I have found solace from a strange friend as I wade through the unknowns of parenting teenagers: George Herbert, an…
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› Read more: To Remember Rightly: The Great & Terrible Wilderness and the Great & Awesome God
To Remember Rightly: The Great & Terrible Wilderness and the Great & Awesome God
Memory is a funny thing, isn’t it? My first memory is being pushed around in a dolphin cart at Sea…
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