Today I got a rejection notice from a journal to which I had submitted some poems. I wasn’t too surprised. For starters, rejection is the norm in poetry, especially early on. If you can’t handle a lot of, “We’re sorry, but . . ” well, its time to start working with stray puppies or something.
Furthermore, this particular [...]
I had Romans 8 in my daily devotions a few weeks back, and had cause to meditate on the portion about suffering in this life vs. the glory of the next. Eventually these thoughts led to a poem. Enjoy.
Glory Past Comparing
Consider, all who suffer;
let this your sorrows heal:
a glory past comparing
in [...]
We are created to be God- and others-centered beings.
~ Paul David Tripp (emphasis mine), at BCTC in Lafayette, IN Feb. 10, 2010.
For some reason, I get a really nice natural light on our porch on cloudy fall days. This was taken almost one year to the day after the one in my previous “Photo Update”.
Well, my time at Blogger was fun. They (along with a couple of Guru Brians I know) made it easy for a guy who knows nothing about websites to have one. And, for a while, everything was going swimmingly.
Then Blogger/Google decided to start hatin’ on the ftp users. Too bad– for Blogger anyway, but good for WordPress. [...]
