by Chris Maxwell | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog
Dear Mama,Today is the anniversary of your death. We have traveled through four decades on life’s ocean without you. We’ve wished you were sailing with us—noticing the scenes of wonder, smiling in awe, enduring the fierce storms, keeping us calm, listening to the...
by Chris Maxwell | Dec 26, 2019 | Blog
by Chris Maxwell | Dec 21, 2019 | Blog, Book Excerpts
From a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder. the passive entertainment of the bigness of our efforts confuses even hopes we once possessed. a precisely timed maneuver matches all the counter-punches to proclaim we really are what we professed. there is no truth in...
by Chris Maxwell | Dec 12, 2019 | Blog, Book Excerpts
This poem has been published in Unwrapping His Presence: What We Really Need for Christmas and a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder. the paper protected the present. it also presented the gift as something it wasn’t. colors, images. a cover, a mask. though...
by Chris Maxwell | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog, Book Excerpts
This poem has been published in Unwrapping His Presence: What We Really Need for Christmas and a slow and sudden God: 40 years of wonder. i am an infant, crawling around on the floor. staring up at the stairway, i long to rise; stand, walk,...
