Stuff in the Basement

Rev. Casey Kuipers and family Whatever you did  for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,  you did for me.’” Ma...

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Ephes...

“I mused, and my spirit grew faint.” Psalm 77 It’s a 19 th century line, something lifted from old novel with a frontispiece por...

“the ungodly are not so. . ." Psalm 1 While it’s never particularly difficult for believers to remember that scripture is holy...

“As the deer pants for streams of water,  so my soul pants for you, O God.” Psalm 42  I used to bale hay. Just about every memory hayi...

“ The trees of the LORD are well watered,  the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.” Psalm 104:16 Up and down the broad shoulders o...

“What is man that you are mindful of him?” Psalm 9 Few people would list Charles Mix County, South Dakota, as an American vacation...

  “ He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.” Psalm 104 The story, in Chadron, Nebraska, that summer, 13 y...

“. . .you thought I was altogether like you.” Psalm 50 When I was a kid, my uncle—a most distinguished uncle—came to visit. I was i...

“My tears have been my food day and night,  while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" Almost fifty years ...

“You crown the year with your bounty,  and your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65 If I’m near water, I eat fish.   Lobs...

“He leads me beside still waters” Psalm 23 I was 32 years old when someone at Bread Loaf Writers Conference called to tell me that my ap...

“ His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,  nor his delight in the legs of a man;. . .” Psalm 147 The athlete in me i...

“ Plowmen have plowed my back  and made their furrows long.” Psalm 129:3             There were no clouds, the sun was going d...

“Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;  do not fret—it leads only to evil.” Psalm 37:8 “Of the seven deadly sins,” so writes Joe Ep...

“For the LORD God is a sun. . .” Psalm 84:11  It’s difficult, at least for me, to think of the sun a...

“But the Lord knows the way of the righteous” Psalm 1 One q and a from the catechism I was raised with will stay forever in me, the fi...