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Jon’s thoughts: I sometimes can’t imagine what it would have been like to grow up under the law. So many rules. So little freedom. Then I think of how we have rebuilt the law in a thousand new and different ways — some spoken, many unspoken — and I am... Read More →

Directions…. Feel free to take as much time as you would like to move through each of these steps. You may want to move slowly, and journal along the way, or use this as a “check in” for yourself, allowing a minute or two to consider the prompt. If you feel led to pause, do so,... Read More →

Jon’s thoughts: I am not sure I have really got my mind settled on the issue “it pleased the Lord to bruise him,” but I have come to a place where I always combine it with Christ’s words, “No one takes it [his life] from me, but I lay it down of my own... Read More →

Jon’s thoughts: It seems odd, but my introduction to this short poem from the Song Of Solomon is considerably longer than the poem itself. Allegory is defined by the Oxford dictionary “as a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden... Read More →

Jon’s thoughts: Somehow I thought that a Limerick would work well for a poem about vanity.  Limericks can be so frivolous yet at the same time convey deep truths. Ecclesiastes 8:15 Vanity Eat, drink and be merry.This is your lot, so do not tarry.With joy in... Read More →