Sunday, March 1, 2026

The Sermon on the Mount: poems of the Incarnation (7)

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Blessed Are the Meek (for they will inherit the earth) Matthew 5:5 I was a shy child and an awkward adolescent. In a group of over four pe...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

The Sermon on the Mount: poems of the Incarnation (6)

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  The Mountainside Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside…. Matthew 5:1 I love your classroom, Lord. When I was a ki...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Traveling light: poems of the Incarnation (5)

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Good Soil … other seed fell on good soil…. Matthew 13:8 I’m all the soils. Sometimes I’m so flat and dull that the seed of God’s word ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Refugees: Advent poems 4

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  The Star … the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. Matthew 2:9 Stran...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Peasants and Astronomers: Advent poems 3

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  Peasants and Scholars There were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night. Luke 2:8-22 Not one ...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Infant praise: Advent poems 2

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  Visitations “Be it unto me as you have said.” Luke 1:38 Both respond with intelligent terror. Gabriel tells them, Be not afraid. Two ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Naming the baby: Advent poems 1

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  Isaiah 9:6      And His Name Shall Be Called… 1.     Wonderful Counselor Jesus, you are finder of lost objects, restorer of broken...