The Saint of Whistle Grove is a collection of stories glancing in on moments from different generations of this little settlement and how their lives, hopes, dreams, and failures shaped this church, even after death.
Tag: eternal life
Review: The Presence
The Presence is a book about the transformed daily life of a Christian. Von Schenk connects so many parts of the Scriptures to show the depth of meaning in the liturgy, Christian history, and, most importantly, the Lord's Supper.
Poetry: Frost – In a Disused Graveyard
"The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never any more the dead."
Poetry: Coleridge – Epitaph
Stop, Christian passer-by!—Stop, child of God,And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sodA poet lies, or that which once seemed he.O, lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C.;That he who many a year with toil of breathFound death in life, may here find life in death!Mercy for praise—to be forgiven for fameHe asked, …
Poetry: Moore – ‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer
In the waiting and holding out in this bleak world, we find that we have hope and that we are not alone.
Madelyn Rose Craig 