• From "Hmm" to "Yes"

    I commend to your reading (and mine when I return to this diary entry in the future) this essay by Father Wesley Hill.

  • Richard Diebenkorn, c. Nineteen fifty-seven

    Happy Easter!

    Painting of single-stem flower against a blue-green and yellow background.
  • Good Friday 2024

    Jesus, my brother,  
    Jesus, my maker,  
    Today, you paid my bills.   
    What can I do, but fall on my face,  
    And thank you for your grace?  
    Jesus, my Lord.
    
  • Fellowship - Christian Wiman
    Tragedy and Christianity are incommensurable,
    he declared, which we’d have chalked to bluster
    had he not, within the month, held a son
    hot from the womb but cold to his kiss,
    and over a coffin compact as a toolbox wept
    in the wrecked unreachable way that most resist,
    and that all of us, where we are most ourselves,
    turn away from.
                                  Bonded and islanded 
    by the silence, we waited there,
    desperate, with our own pains, to believe,
    desperate, with our own pains, not to.
    
  • whatever happens this year
    I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.
    In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

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