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...
by Pete Schipper | Aug 29, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
Convocation of FliesIsaiah 14:12-27 1 Peter 5:8 James 4:7 Ephesians 4:27September 2024Shielded 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...
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....
by Pete Schipper | May 30, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
Barbershop DuetJune 20241 Peter 3:15 Squinting against the rain, his thoughts anywhere but where he was going, Roger Berlingson caught the red and white candycane out of the corner of his eye just in time to avoid whacking it with his head. Good thing it was there. If...
by Pete Schipper | Apr 28, 2024 | Via Maris Monthly
Matthew 5.38-39 Romans 1:17-19 Six o’clock Saturday morning, T. Tom awoke just as he did every Saturday morning. He was ten years of age and everyone called him T. Tom, his dad, his grandparents, aunts and uncles, even his friends. Everyone except mother, Maggie...
