When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

John Milton was a Christian and poet in the 1600’s.  By age 44, he went blind.  Milton wondered if he could continue serving God without eyesight.  Sometimes, he simply felt useless. Milton’s anxiety and grief spill out in his 19th sonnet: “When I consider how my light is spent.”  The sonnet ends with the Lord’s…

Hymne to God the Father

Sketch by Patrick Murphy Before time           your counsels chose           that you would lose eternal ties           with your one           and only Son. – Not sparing Him           you let the whips    …