If you are a follower of Christ, you must get fired up reading this – –
“I see,” she said. “This is still Narnia, and more real and more beautiful than the Narnia down below, just as it was more real and more beautiful than the Narnia outside the Stable door! I see . . . world within world, Narnia within Narnia . . .”
Paul probably didn’t picture a blog when he wrote, Titus 2:3-5. I doubt that his vision for older women teaching younger women included someone in Florida being able to write thoughts instantly accessible to the world. But, Pollwog Creek lives out the exhortation of this passage.
Eugene Peterson wrote in Under the Unpredictable Plant that pastoral visits are:
. . . occasions for original research on the stories being shaped in their lives by the living Christ. I go to these appointments with the same diligence and curiousity that I bring to a page of Isaiah’s oracles, a tangled argument in St. Paul . . .
I love doing the original research of studying the lives of our people. Exegeting the stories of our small town is one of my greatest joys. I wrote the following newsletter article after a visit last week.
It’s an amazing day we live in when those who tucked in with a clean blanket of snow in Illinois (Isaiah 1:18) can enjoy and be thankful for a particular little bird in Florida . . .