Telling the Truth

connecting the dots of my life

Tag: Sabbath rest

In a Ferment about Writing

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I’ve been in a ferment since Sunday evening. The kind that begins with strange dreams I can’t remember when I wake up. They aren’t frightening or foreboding, though they’re regularly about circumstances that Read the rest of this entry »

Scotland, Food and My Gut

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Scottish Traditional Vegetarian Breakfast, Priestville Guest House

I can’t get The Reclamation Project out of my mind. In fact, just reviewing it this morning reminded me of what happened in my gut while D and I were in Scotland.

I have challenges when it comes to food Read the rest of this entry »

A Poem for My Friends

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A gracious breeze blew through the air
and cooled my face this evening
The sky pale blue with rosy clouds
Wrapped up the faded setting sun
The moon gleamed high above it all
In white with shadowed face

Mosquitoes buzzed around my face Read the rest of this entry »

Sabbath Sloth

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When I was studying theology in the late 1970s, I got excited about Karl Barth’s descriptions of sin. Weird? Maybe. At any rate, I’ve been thinking about one sin in particular—sloth. It’s one of the seven deadly sins. Often understood as laziness, as aptly demonstrated in the photo above.

It all started with my post about the mouth of a labyrinth. Read the rest of this entry »