by ST, 2/16/2025 I recently heard the song “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim McGraw. He said“I was in my early fortiesWith a lot of life before meAnd a moment came that stopped me on a dimeI spent most of the next daysLooking at the x-raysTalkin’ ’bout the optionsAnd talkin’ ’bout sweet time”I askedContinue reading “To Live as if Dying”
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In the Last Days, Before the New Arrival
by ST, in the 1980s From early spring, in the season of the Lamb, We waited for news from the distant land: How fares the Vineyard, shall the tree give the fig? When harvest time is here, shall ought fill the crib? The month of Julius, then Augustus, the days were wasted, To pregnant fields,Continue reading “In the Last Days, Before the New Arrival”
A Psalm of Thanksgiving
by ST Thanks be to God! In giving thanks I give thanks unto Thee. Thou who openest the expanse of the heavens And givest Thy children eyes to behold– Even to the Touching of our hearts. Thy wondrous works, O Lord, In all this earth below Do amaze and awaken our souls. Beneath the surfaceContinue reading “A Psalm of Thanksgiving”
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