CHRIST IN WINTER:
Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter… ©
In the darkness of this
morning hour
my vision of the day
is filled with hope.
Yet I know that with the
dawn
comes worry,
aches of body, mind, and
soul,
concerns for others,
and for my own slowly
slipping
footing in this world.
Evil hides in night time,
true,
but it brazens forth in
daylight,
swinging the sword of power
with lies and swagger,
chanting holy verses as it
strides.
Do not despair because of
darkness.
In the darkness before
daylight
there is hope.
John Robert McFarland
The “place of winter”
mentioned in the title line is Iron Mountain, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
where life is defined by winter even in the summer! [This phrase is explained
in the post for March 20, 2014.]
You don’t have to bookmark
or favorite the CIW URL to return here. Just Google Christ In Winter and it
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I have also started an
author blog, about writing, in preparation for the publication, by Black Opal
Books, of my novel, VETS, in late
2014 or early 2015. http://johnrobertmcfarland-author.blogspot.com/
I tweet as yooper1721.
I don't manage to swing over to your blog to catch all of you posts, but when I do, your writing always speaks to me and seems to have relevance to things that are good for me to address in my life. Very powerful messages.
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