Love in a covered dish
The sign reads, “Put some South in ya mouth” but only Tuesday through Saturday night. The sign promotes the Southern Smoke Barbeque and Catering Company, a restaurant I pass daily. Southerners do a lot of communicating with food, harkening to our primitive and primary natures. In our gumbos and pecan pies, our hoppin’ John and […]
A thread runs through it
The Lowcountry, a geographical place with mysteries seeping toward consciousness, beckons you. A thread runs through this land and its people like a young live oak reaching, swaying and bending but unbroken against time and storm and man’s onward march. This place speaks not to the ear, but to the soul. Its wind is laden […]
Unmade beds
If we are to become God’s children, we are to be undone. The undoing challenges our nature. Humans deceive themselves. What we perceive as normal is imperceptible to us because it is normal. But normal is the great deceiver on the path that is a new life in Christ. Having been claimed by Christ, the […]