Captian's Log The Way 22 May 2017 As finals make their dreadful approach the wayward blogger finds himself surrounded by hordes of enemy homework. Armed with unrealistic due dates they tear asunder his resolve, the resolution to…
Captian's Log Don’t Panic! 18 May 201718 May 2017 There is a pernicious assumption that two thousand years ago one man was nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a…
Captian's Log In His Hands 17 May 201717 May 2017 In my last post I alluded to life happening. For instance, our refrigerator broke and the house now smells of rotting food. But of a deeper concern, a loved one…
Captian's Log Rescued 15 May 201715 May 2017 I think this is the first poem I will have published in a post. I tried to follow two major rules: a simple rhyming structure of AABB, and a decreasing…
Captian's Log Heart’s Emptiness 12 May 2017 Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless. Some of us get that quote immediately. Those who do recognize what Solomon is saying in Ecclesiastes. What profit is there under the sun, he…
Captian's Log The Mercy of God 4 May 2017 This picture is cutesy of Blogthechurch. Sodom and Gomorrah is a common allusion from the book of Genesis used in our culture. It is part of a wonderful theme found throughout…
Captian's Log The Budding of Reason 28 Apr 201728 Sep 2017 I am asked, as a Christian, "What the heck do [I] mean by faith?" Often the question is a way of setting up the assertion that religion is predicated on…
Captian's Log The Ultimatum 26 Apr 201726 Apr 2017 Are you ready? It's sort of a daunting inquiry. Are you ready for the exam? You've studied, you've made it to the office hours, but that fear ever haunts the…
Captian's Log Fullness 25 Apr 2017 I have been seeing a nutritionist these last few months and found it surprising that instead of cutting from my diet she adds to it. In a sense I wasn’t…
Captian's Log My Friend Mario 24 Apr 201724 Apr 2017 I would like to tell you about Mario, not the plumber you've heard about. One day you may run into him as I have. The train was loaded and the…