wonder – Lindsey Gallant

Eyes for Glory

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Lindsey Gallant / 19 Comments

Dawn is an old woman creaking out of bed this morning. Her rosy fingers are slow to pull back the covers. Her sigh is cold at the window. I rise into slip...

autumn/nature/quiet/waiting/wonder

When all the world seems brown

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

As the earth turns toward winter, there is a hushed darkness in the early morning hours. Come November, I stop resisting the retreat of the sun. In this perfect...

Christmas/Incarnation/wonder

Strange wonder and secure welcome

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Lindsey Gallant

“[W]e need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to ...

parenting/wonder

Wonder, dirty dishes, and the gift of personhood

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Lindsey Gallant / 2 Comments

It’s been one month since we met face to face, one month since you emerged from your wrappings into my embrace. As it stands today, the kitchen is a mess,...

poetry/wonder

“The Poet” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Lindsey Gallant / 0 Comment

The poet hath the child’s sight in his breast, And sees all new. What oftenest he has viewed,He views with the first glory. Fair and goodPall never o...