Painfully Hopeful

Where’s the hope?

Driving home today I spotted some Christmas decorations adorning a house around the corner from mine. Prominently displayed in the set up were three words – Peace, Love, and Joy. As decorations go, I’ll take prominent displays of these words over all the inflatable Santa Clauses on the planet. These words also match up nicely…

Pastoral Prayer

And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise…

A Foggy Walk

This morning I was about to pour the rest of the contents of my French Press into a travel mug when I looked out the window. There was fog. Not a faint hint of cloud which makes you believe your eyes must still be out of focus from sleep, mind you. This was fog –…

Jessica Jones – The MCU goes bleak

The small screen Marvel Cinematic Universe 1 got off to a rather stellar beginning with Daredevil. Since that show’s release I’ve been eagerly anticipating the next series, Jessica Jones. This is the first Marvel property in the MCU based upon a character I never encountered in comic form, as Jessica Jones was after my time…

Fiction Tuesday – Onward and Downward

Today returns me to my non-NaNoWriMo schedule. By wonderful happenstance, however, this means I shift gears on Fiction Tuesday! If you’d like to catch up on this story, Welcome to the Valleys, the first section can be found at this link “Would repeat that please?” Kaitlyn glared at Talum, who seemed to have understood he…

NaNoWriMo – Evening Rush

Throughout November I’ll be concentrating my posts on Welcome to the Valleys in honor of NaNoWriMo. If you’d like to catch up on this story, the first post of this story can be found at this link Walter ordered drinks for the trio, but before they could even take their first sip a guard burst…