Tuesday, June 9, 2026

A Grey Hallelujah

Sometimes in the greyness of days, one after another, life becomes as clear as it can be.  It seems to be still enough to think about seeing, to say, “Did you see what you see?”.  As if the grey of the world gives me time to see the color of my own life.  I am gifted with stillness and quietness, the last home at a long, dead-end, nicked out in the forest, a small plot, bound by a mountain behind and the river in front.  Life is a grand experience, truly, “a stage.”  Oh, but what a stage.  I guess this is what I see, the most profound seeing I am constantly seeing, the natural world “stage.” And what does the stage cause me to perform, what does it prompt me to be, to say, to believe? 

“Oh what a Savior.”  

 “Once I was straying in sin’s dark valley

No hope within could I see

They searched through heaven 

And they found a Saviour

To save a poor lost soul like me

Oh, what a Saviour! Oh, hallelujah.  



 

Monday, June 1, 2026

The Exquisite Palace of Suffering

I place myself in quiet solitude in the morning and several times throughout the day,  mostly seeking the Ancient of Days. In the quiet times of life, I experience sincere thoughts on life, my life, and the lives of loved ones.  Experience is the right word; these times are often powerful, meaningful, and deeply experienced.  This morning, in the quiet of dawn, I was given this title about my body’s suffering from becoming old.  I have known and experienced all my body's exquisite feats of living, and now I am experiencing its suffering of living.  The biggest surprise of my life, the painfulness of my exquisite palace as it gets old.  

My daughter is in Italy and sends up pictures of Palaces 
around the lake where they are staying.