by Chris Maxwell | Jan 28, 2020 | Blog, Book Excerpts
I’ve offered thoughts on plans and prayers. The focus was for six months, six words, six days, and six minutes. Today? Let’s think about six weeks. January 2020 arrived in haste. We’ve had no snow in northeast Georgia, but the days and weeks traveled in a flurry. They...
by Chris Maxwell | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog, Book Excerpts
There are times for lengthy conversations with God. We moan, we wait, we plead, we think, we request. During those times we stay in the dialogue with our Listener. Our words and His word. Our hopes and His guidance. A long time at an altar. A long time on our knees....
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,...
by Chris Maxwell | Nov 18, 2019 | Blog, Book Excerpts
From the book Underwater: When Encephalitis, Brain Injury and Epilepsy Change Everything. Moods can change quickly. Let’s go back to six months after my illness. I felt excited about finally being considered seizure-free and being given permission to drive again. I...
