Joseph’s Song
God, Life, and Beauty | Jeremy Vogan
by Jeremy Vogan
4M ago
You are not my son; I have not known her; Our love was chaste, till All this came down. . My heart is broken, Our dreams are over. For surely nothing  Can make this pure. . For all my grief, though, I cannot blame her, As something trusting  Is in her eyes. . A quiet parting  For godly justice  Is all my heart knows  To hope to do. . A dreadful vision, A mighty message— This is God’s doing? You are His Son? . I will obey Him And be her husband, Stand as Your father  In holy fear. . “Hear, O Israel Your God is one God”; But in this marriage  There shall be t ..read more
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Hebrews 11:10
God, Life, and Beauty | Jeremy Vogan
by Jeremy Vogan
1y ago
Hebrews 11:10  “For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.” There is a place, Lord Far from the blood-soaked ziggurats in the land You called our father from Far from the spreading trees and high places of Israel’s idolatrous youth Far from the pagan temples of the nations You exiled them to There was a hint of it long ago, when Melchizedek blessed Abraham, and brought out bread and wine When God stayed the hand of His obedient servant, and provided a sacrifice for the offering, that Isaac the child of promise might live  When the ..read more
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Bitter
God, Life, and Beauty | Jeremy Vogan
by Jeremy Vogan
1y ago
I hate the cold. Ok, that is probably too strong. So maybe I just hate how I feel when it’s cold. But the older I get, the more I feel it. All the way into my bones. It is a slowness, a constricting, a paralyzing, unfriendly bitterness that makes me want to go into hibernation somewhere and not come out till about May. And at the same time, I am 44 years old, and I know it is a part of the rhythm of life. The picture shown above is one of my very favorites from a few years ago. I stopped my truck alongside the road and took it looking off the Barren Ridge in Fishersville, one morning when the ..read more
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The Ride
God, Life, and Beauty | Jeremy Vogan
by Jeremy Vogan
1y ago
A hot dog used to cost a nickel here Which she would grab from in her purse, and peer Up at me smiling as she pinched them close: “It’s always more expensive on the coast!” She loved to feel the salt wind on her face And lean beyond the wooden rail’s embrace To taste the foam that whirled along the shore With hints of Venice, and to hear the door Creak softly open that might let her view The spires of old St. Petersburg, or through Its narrow crevice catch a fleeting glimpse Of Bushmen practicing their crouching limps, Or Byzantines with whirling dervish lined. She’d only ever seen them in ..read more
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Return
God, Life, and Beauty | Jeremy Vogan
by Jeremy Vogan
1y ago
from Psalm 90 Lord, we have made our home in You as long as time can tell before You raised the lofty view when mountains’ shadows fell before You shaped the quiet earth that void and formless lay and brought Creation into birth when darkness turned to day from age to age You are Most High and call us ever home “Return,” Your Spirit softly cries as dust to dust we come an aeon passes in Your sight as though a day gone by the years like yesterday take flight and leave us as they fly like troubled dreams You sweep away the bearers of Your Name who felt the living warmth of day before the evenin ..read more
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Gift
God, Life, and Beauty | Jeremy Vogan
by Jeremy Vogan
1y ago
  Soft That was how You lived, and how You came to die, not even knowing:       How hard I struggled to say “The needle, then”       How hard I cried (so unmanly? didn’t care) to let you go       How hard to stroke your graying head, for the last time       How hard the surging clouds strewed overhead, as if the skies, shattered, wept with me       How hard to see the sudden question in your eyes; And harder still your calm acceptance, trusting me   Trusting – as you always have – to the very end Softly knowi ..read more
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