by Pete Schipper | Nov 25, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
Love One December 2024 1 John 3:1 ● Deuteronomy 5:7-10 A screeching ak-ak-ak sounded from the rocks. I looked up. Seagull, lots of wingflaps. Must have said something the other ones didn’t like. “Depression can get like that,” I said. “It can just grab you by the...
by Pete Schipper | Oct 30, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
Cheeseburger Psalm October 2024Ephesians 3:16-19 We were having a late lunch at Phyllis’s coffee shop, a cheery place done up with yellow and white chintz tablecloths and framed covers from the Saturday Evening Post, the ones by Norman Rockwell of folks in diners and...
by Pete Schipper | Sep 26, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
Oat and Oak October 2024 Matthew 21:16 Y’know what I think, Grampa?” Bailey squiggled her 10-year-old self onto the recliner, snuggled up next to her grandfather. She was warm and fragrant from playing. Her grandfather said, “Bailey, you smell like the outdoors.” The...
by Pete Schipper | Aug 29, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
Convocation of Flies Isaiah 14:12-27 1 Peter 5:8 James 4:7 Ephesians 4:27 September 2024 Shielded within a sphere of light, tall, broad of shoulder, sun-bright in white robes, Mikha’el and Gavri’el watched the convocation below. A foul taste came to Mikha’el’s...
by Pete Schipper | Jul 29, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
Sprinting in La Paz August 2024 Matthew 13.22 Ecclesiastes 9.11 Today was no different. It’s the crunch of the sand or maybe breeze in the palm trees, waves lapping on the shore, whatever. Every time I step off the blacktop onto the sand, the memories click,...
by Pete Schipper | Jun 27, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
July 2024 Matthew 28:1-4 Dust filtered into the darkened tomb, silently erasing the signs of mourning. The cold body lay on the bier, lovingly draped in a linen burial shroud. Outside, Roman legionnaires, eyes juddering in the dawnlight, await this, the third day....
