January might possibly be the bleakest month of all the year. It certainly is often a let-down after the chaos and busyness of December. As I referenced in an earlier post, “Secular Christmas, with its enthusiastic sparkles, dumps us into the cold gray of January. Christian joy is much weightier, more durable”.* It’s not just…
Month: January 2022
Recent Reads, Volume XX
A brief summary of what I’m currently reading or have recently finished, why I read it, and whether I’d recommend it. Although really, it’d have to be truly terrible for me to bother writing about a book I wouldn’t recommend…… The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom) – The Hiding Place is the classic story of…
Brought Near
“Bow down and worship, righteous seer: / The Lord our God is here / Approachable, Who bids us all draw near.” – Christina Rossetti, Epiphany* It “just so happened” that I was reading Ezekiel, Hebrews, and portions of Leviticus and Deuteronomy at the same time shortly before the end of the year. That convergence of…
Sorest Need
“To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need”. Thus ends the first stanza of Emily Dickinson’s “first” poem, in quotes because it’s simply the one most often printed first in anthologies.* I recently came across such an anthology as I sorted through a box of books waiting for my attention after our move, and promptly…