Last summer, I read John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and found it to be a intriguing book. Since then, the words timshel and “thou mayest” have been ringing in my head from time to time. Timshel is a Hebrew word that has”thou mayest” as a translation of it. If you have read East of Eden,…
An old but lovely hymn goes, “I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear falling on my ear The Son of God discloses And He walks with me And He talks with me And He tells me I am his own And the joy…
In King Lear, the marvelous play by William Shakespeare, the Duke of Albany explains to wicked Oswald that “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well” (Act I, Scene IV). In other words, even when we humans try to improve something and hold the best of intentions, we can destroy. Our sinful and fallen natures…
Hello, world. The vision of this website is still in-progress. Expect a variety of posts aimed at life, my Christian walk, philosophical and theological questions, lessons learned, and “mere” observations of joy and delight in the world. I have embraced my identity, finally, as a happy English major, artist, and poet. By “poet,” I echo…