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Actually Contributing Thoughts: Why I am (re)starting my blog
I often say I am going to do something long before I actually do it. Last September I said that I would like my blog to be a place where I actually explore my thoughts rather than a place where I post the occasional poem or essay. Two reasons: As I near the end of… Continue reading
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Colors
Brown hardwood floors like the color of a guitar heard in muted light while organic fair-trade coffee lingers in your mouth and paintdrops reflect off the barista’s square framed glasses Green grass stains on white socks like the color of a Kinkade field vibrating with light near a cottage hanging in Grandma’s house amidst the… Continue reading
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My Beatitudes
Blessed are those who take off the blinders of the evangelical subculture for they will truly find me. Blessed are those who cry out against American economic and military exploitation for they are my prophets. Blessed are those who treat gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals with the utmost respect and love for they understand the… Continue reading
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Rome Trip
I, apparently, never posted the travel update for my Rome trip abut 11 months ago or so. Anyway, here it is. I wrote it in August. Greetings everyone, I know that I have failed in my duty to write up a post about my trip to Rome. It seems that I put off this duty… Continue reading
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Incarnational Community
Around the same time I was thinking the thoughts that led up to the blog post “Lonely as a Star” our Life Group began talking about the logistics of “multiplication.” That just means that our Life Group has gotten too huge and we will become two Life Groups. In our discussion a week and a… Continue reading
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Hebrews
I recorded the book of Hebrews today. Reading it all in one setting was really good. It helps emphasize the unity of the work. We often get caught up in verse and chapter divisions, but the scriptures were not written this way. Additionally, hearing it is a new and good experience. The scriptures were most… Continue reading
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Rand and Roark
I forgot about this poem. It is my response to Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Rand and Roark by Greg Jeffers I wish you hadn’t so readily slept in her dead arms. Didn’t you feel the cadaver’s iciness as she hollowly sang a lying lullaby: words of loneliness to the melody of self-absorption? She… Continue reading
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Lonely as a Star. Emotional Response to Modern Worship.
I recorded a poem on Friday. The title is “Lonely as a Star.” Before you think I’m some narcissist, some person so consumed with my own grandness that I refer to myself as a star, just try to understand the image. Stars exist in space surrounded by a vast blackness. We see their light from… Continue reading
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Echoing the Snow
Paths stretch out into the darkening horizon as the sun continues her chained journey around the world. My feet grasp hard the dusty rut in which they walk, compelled by future gratification. But the horizon grows darker and I walk faster; coerced by gravity, my wings are bound. The night arrives in… Continue reading
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My Prayer
Lord, make me love as Jesus loved: despising that small tepid emotion which would put you in a box of good-will and genial kindness and would forever lock you away from the sweat, grime, and abrasiveness of life lived and people loved. Lord, make me serve as Jesus served: rejecting the lie of “good deeds”… Continue reading
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People are…
…candles hidden in jars, clay surrounded warmth, controlled and banked, exploding with the light of life. …music locked in strings, metal taut and cold, stretched to breaking, vibrating with God’s song …stones near a river, still and unmoving, memories old as the earth, taken by raging torrents. …trees rooted on a boulevard,… Continue reading
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Balkans Trip
Greetings all. I currently find myself with plenty of time on my hands to devote to writing a travel update, and so that is what I have decided to do. My last post ended with me leaving for Berlin to pick up my passport. Well, I went to Berlin and was successful. I was granted… Continue reading
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3/7-3/21
Greetings once again. I am trying very hard to have a much shorter travel update this time around. This should be aided by the lack of any very long trips to have happened in the past two weeks. When we last spoke I had returned from Paris and had been in Leipzig for a week.… Continue reading
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February
Greetings. Alas, it seems that the curse of being busy struck me. It has been a little more than a month since I have posted any sort of update about my adventures in Germany and Europe. I will attempt to rectify that here. Rather than give a play by play update, I will divide this… Continue reading
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1/24-2/3
My apologies for not posting last Sunday. I know I promised a weekly update, but last Sunday was what we might call “stressful.” Anyhow, I have time to write today, so I am, and you’re just going to have to settle for that. So there! My last post ended with a descent into slumber at… Continue reading
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1/18-1/23
Greetings. My last post ended with me going to sleep on Sunday night. Since then, I have engaged in many delightful adventures. On Monday we had our first classes. The first class of the day was German. At 8:30 AM we departed the apartments, hopped on a tram, connected to another tram, and then got… Continue reading
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1/15-1/17
I believe my last post ended with me sitting on a bus on the way to Leipzig. Well, we made it to Leipzig and into the apartments. We got the internet set up and sat around on our computers catching up with the virtual world. I only spent about 40 hours away from the internet,… Continue reading
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The First Day
Greetings everyone! I am writing this inaugural entry for my travel blog while I am on a bus somewhere between Frankfurt and Leipzig. Travel is Hell. We left Abilene at 10:50 AM Central Standard Time. The bus ride was relatively uneventful. The eight of us going to Germany claimed our seats in the middle of the… Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 