From Dandelion End

This is only one thought among many concerning human affections, and it is a brief post because of my impending obligations of the day. I was just thinking, though, how once one has developed an affection, a true affection, and not merely a passing fancy, for an object, for an idea, for a kind of [.

Today is a day of firsts. It is the first day of 2012. It is the first day of the week. This is my first blog post of the year. And there are other firsts. Some of them are known to me. Some of them are not. For the year ahead, we all have gifts.Three [...]

“What is needed is this: that we who would speak for Christ, should pray constantly that God will put and keep in our hearts a sense of His goodness and glory, and of the joy of fellowship with Him, and of the dreadfulness of spending time and eternity without him; and then that God will [...]

My generation is definitely a video- focused group, having cut our teeth on Sesame Street, and come of age to the throbbing pulses of MTV and its copycat cousin, the Friday- night music video. Often, when my wife and I are relating some memory to or children, it involves a television show, a movie,

I courted the muse in I Iceland,/ But my verse grew distant and cold./ So I hied me to far Tahiti,/ Where my poems were fevered and bold.// As poet I roamed deep jungles,/ My rhyming disordered and wild./ In war- scarred France I suffered-/ Rhymes crippled, torn, defiled.// Despairing, I fled to my

On Wednesday night, we read some of the Advent Scripture. We lit the candles, shared some fruit, added a Jesse tree “ornament” to our Christmas tree, talked a little of what we had read, and closed our time in prayer. I so very much enjoy that our focus these last few years has been one [...]

In Wednesday’s post, I mentioned that seventy years is given as a typical expected life span for people living on earth. Now, history shows us plenty of epochs and cultures where life expectancy was much lower, but taken overall, David’s statement seems to be a general truism since the worldwide flo

70 years is a lifetime. David, king of Israel, noted, in the sacred writings, that 70 years is pretty much a normal life span for human beings. David also noted that if God so desires, we may live to 80 years old or more. 70 years ago today, imperial Japan bombed the United States military [...]

One hundred one in blaze and white,/ One hundred one work through the night,/ ‘Neath man-made suns on ballast floors,/ Each one assigned to work his chores.// The foreman barks his orders clear,/ As engines idle far and near./ Then wood and rail hang in the air/ While hearts and hands in work do sha

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile, and will continue to do so for some time.  It was quite interesting that I recently talked about this with a Christian brother from Grundy Center, Iowa, and I leave this link for him, as well as other dear readers.  Bishop J.C. Ryle, as the second link gives