Several months ago, after I wrote a post about my need for silence, stillness, and solitude, I had an email exchange with an acquaintance from church—we’ll call him Ben—who wrote to me about his own need for solitude. By day he works in customer...
Is the sun far from any smallest flower That lives by his dear presence every hour?” ‘Dear presence every hour’! What of the night, When crumpled daisies shut gold sadness in; And some do hang the head for lack of light, Sick almost unto death with...
K.C. IRETON
K.C. Ireton is a writer and teacher. The author of The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year and Cracking Up: A Postpartum Faith Crisis, she lives near Seattle with her husband and four school-aged children. She is a lover of books, gardens, and tea. Also, Oxford commas.