art and faith

Getting old is the greatest challenge of my life. It is a life-and-death grudge match, a winner-take-all fight to the finish, an all-out war...

I spend a lot of time thinking these days on the compression of life.  It seems that 68 years in a 68-year-old mind is but a moment, a brief...

There is great joy in knowing you can make nothing.  I was sitting beside the river yesterday, allowing the balm of natural beauty to do its...

Years ago, God allowed me to know the deep and abiding kindness of rain. There are few things so kind, shared in such tiny portions by the i...

The pains of life are many.  We cannot live an abundant life without accepting the abundance of pain and sorrow, the deaths, the deep hurts,...

We should each have a cathedral in our lives.  For years, I’ve been drawn to the great cathedrals of Europe, those sacred works of the Medie...

It is important to write, to record your life, when you lived and what was true on that day.  I went for a walk in the woods, now fully cano...