May 12, 2020-Things Get Better WNIJ Perspective Fifty years ago, I halted my horse by the mandrakes, far from the house, so my parents would not hear my sobs. I…
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The Conspiracy Temptation “Do not call a conspiracy all that this people calls a conspiracy, and do not fear what they shall fear, nor be in dread,” God says to…
WNIJ Good Friday Perspective “You’ll be gone by spring,” said the same voice that drove me to retire. I was afraid this might be true, that I’d be dead by…
Glory be to God for poop. After a forty-degree temperature change and full water buckets, across two days, I was relieved to see big piles of manure in the mares’…
Gifts That I Desire Today The night before Christmas I used be full of anticipation. I’d listen to my mother wrapping presents on the ironing board, the thump of boxes,…
Seth Haines writes, “I’ve found myself giving into the noise in my pocket these days, failing to do the work to lay hold of silence.” When I opened this, annoyed…
Lately, I’ve heard people mock the idea of thoughts and prayers in the wake of a tragedy, but I have seen the power of these prayers. Jesus says we’re supposed…
The other morning’s mares galloping across the sky. They run full throttle, tails streaming behind them. The air is still down here but teasing those tails out behind them. I’d…
I came this close to selling my young mare. She was five. When she was displeased, she snapped her big white teeth at me and she bucked, with the most…
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on me. Who ever would dump their dead sheep in the ditch along our road–the flies matted…