It was in the blind of a light blue head buzz of sleepiness that we swooped into London, corralled our luggage, hopped the fast train to Paddington Station, caught the Underground to “Swiss Cottage Station”, and finally flagged a taxi to carry our weary bones the last half mile to the Regents Park Marriott. A [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 8, 2009
Story-formed
Being my bookish self, I loved finding a book I’d never before seen called Reading the Classics with C.S. Lewis, just sitting on the shelf at Agia Sophia while I waited for my cappuccino. Lewis is one of my favorite authors- companion of my wildest imaginations in childhood and then mentor/older brother to my dire [...]
January 2, 2009
Into the New Year…
I was reading Psalm 91 yesterday’s windy morning as a start to the new year, ambling enjoyably through a myriad of warm, assuring promises of God’s strength and shelter and assurances to protect His people, when I was stopped short by this verse: no evil shall befall you. I ground to a sudden halt because [...]
