Dappled Things

GLORY be to God for dappled things…

Month: April, 2005

Thoughts of Home

The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and pose an obstacle to our return to God. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. –C. S. Lewis

Life and Death

I am recovering from a long and somewhat emotionally draining week. Last Sunday, I received a phone call from my mother-in-law letting me know that Will’s grandfather had just passed away that morning. He was ninety-two and had not been doing well in recent weeks, so it was not totally unexpected. It was a sad [...]

Real Life

I know, I know… I haven’t been very faithful in posting lately. Someone please flog me. When I first started this blog, I wanted it to be an outlet for the side of me that I felt I had been neglecting for too many years. In my younger years, I had dreams of becoming a [...]