New Year – Poetic Meanderings

Still Rising

You made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to set. —Psalm 104:19, NLT It hasn’t felt all that different yet. We’ve only just waded into the lapping waves of 2021, barely getting our feet wet. It felt so long getting here — I think we all let out a collectiveContinue reading “Still Rising”

Days Gone By

And we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne. 2020 is ending in a shroud of white, a cold layer settling the year to rest. I await the pre-dawn hour, after the Watch Night, after the reconciling of thoughts from all that has past this persistent year, I look out, step outContinue reading “Days Gone By”

Night Watch

“New Year’s Day is a good time to fix one’s eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.” —Elisabeth Elliot The watch before the dawning of a new year and the restarting of a rhythm that marks time with our memories, reminds us of our place in this world. Continue reading “Night Watch”

Resolution

Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. — I Corinthians 13:12, NLT In music theory, you carry the dissonanceContinue reading “Resolution”

Putting Away

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. —1 Corinthians 13:11, NLT These last few days, putting away the tree, finding a place for every new trinket and gift, clearing out some things well past their usefulness, taking longContinue reading “Putting Away”