Being the adventures of an unlikely group of unsung heroes
The words Anchorite, Sentire, Master, Teacher, Biskop, Chanticleer, Priest:
Most of those sporting such a title are just peacocks.
The touchstone is this:
Hold them upside down over a cliff for a few hours.
If they don’t wet their pants maybe you found a real one.
(from the personal writings and poesies of Simeon of the Pillar, scribed in the […]
And so we come full circle in this tragic comedy we call our lives; and what have we learned? Only that the dance is never done, and despite our awareness of these celestial puppeteers, we are ultimately fated to carry out their designs, and to pay their toll with our sanity.
When Ephraim shook me out […]
O Ezra, hear the prayers of this humble sinner.
Lord, I am guilty of the sin of pride. A tension has been growing in me over the past weeks, making me feel as though there has been some event, some happening that is just around the corner and waiting for me to discover it. Then my […]
There one minute, and gone the next; an expression some use to describe the rare moments in life that slip through our fingers all too quickly. The unfortunate brevity of a perfect moment of joy, or in our case, near-catastrophic disaster.
There we were, Petru, Ephraim and I, cradling our unfortunate Symeon who had tempted […]
