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 service; by...
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.