When I was a girl, I longed to experience what Emily Starr, the heroine of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily trilogy, called “the flash:” It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and...
Sunday is Epiphany. At some point that day, our family will gather on our front porch. We will pray a blessing over our house. Lord God of Heaven and Earth, You revealed Your only-begotten Son to every nation by the light of a star. Bless this house and all who live...
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul...
Praise the Lord, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars! Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling God’s word! Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars! Beasts and all...
My soul doth magnify the Lord: and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Hosanna to the Lord. Hosanna O my soul. O my soul does magnify. Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Holy is His name, alleluia. Hosanna, O my soul. My soul does magnify the...
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.