Thy love, O gracious God and Lord,All other loves excelling,Attunes my heart to sweet accord,And passes pow’r of telling;For when Thy wondrous love I see,My heart yields glad submission;I love Thee for Thy love to meIn my poor, lost condition. Yea, Thou hast loved our […]
How fair the Church of Christ shall stand,A beacon light in all the land,When love and faith all hearts inspire,And all unite in one desireTo be a fam’ly and agreeTo live in peace and unity. ‘Tis all in vain that you professThe doctrines of the […]
Now rest beneath night’s shadowThe woodland, field, and meadow,The world in slumber lies;But thou, my heart, awake thee,To pray’r and song betake thee;Let praise to thy Creator rise. O sun, where art thou vanished?Thy golden rays are banishedBy day’s old foe, the night;Farewell, for now […]
Where I’m from is an old little house,Fraying at the seams with waterlogged edges,An enclosed porch with a screen door that falls off, A door that doesn’t lock or unlock, A yard once full of fun things,Now reduced to empty grass. No more rotting swingsets,Broken slides,Reclaimed sandboxes, Dead […]
Rambling oak branches that curiously reach this way and that, like energized neurons trapped in a cerebellum. Distant city lights, which sparkle like the white of an eye against the darkness of a deep, blue sapphire iris. The sound of the train in the early […]
I love my parents, I do—it’s true,But they taught me everything I shouldn’t do.I played Barbies alone, tucked away in my room,While they stared at their phones, lost in the gloom. They expected me to raise my little brother,But why couldn’t that be the job […]
Lord– Countless familial and novel names filled my childhood prayers. Words followed the same pattern, cadence, and tempo as I recited: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray […]
What would you be willing to do to get back to your significant other after twenty years of separation? In Epic: The Musical, Odysseus, King of Ithaca, discovers exactly how far he is willing to go to return home to his wife. Epic is based […]
“If Santa isn’t real, what else have you lied to me about? The Easter Bunny? What about the Tooth Fairy?” These were the words that ten-year-old me screamed at my parents in the middle of the meat section of a H-E-B. For clarification, H-E-B is […]
I listened to you sing like a golden canary in the branches of an ancient oak. I watched you dance just like a graceful ballerina who made time stand still. I watched you wither away as the sickness chewed and gnawed stripping away at your […]