C.S. Lewis wrote that “Pain insists upon being attended to. Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“Timing,” I say, “is God’s signature.”

Both aphorisms came together in my life this past week.

“The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.”

Don’t be fooled by the horse on the book’s cover. The story is not about a horse. But there is a horse story, almost like the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop. The horse story is important to the story about the people.

When I look back on the four years I spent in seminary, my most vivid memory is not of the professor who made me cry, or the time I got called in [to the principal’s office, so to speak] regarding an article I wrote for the student newspaper, or the difficulties faced as a woman

“And the livin’ is easy.”

Or maybe it’s not.

Trials and troubles are not seasonal.

Contrary to myth, ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand.

Headline today on Google News, the Western Silverado gets long-awaited kudos.