There are two times a year when mankind as a collective group acknowledges the thinness between our world and another. When we admit there might be more than the eye can behold and the fingers can touch. When we all bask and bathe in Wonder. Those two times are Halloween and Christmas. And of these two, the first cannot hold …
Prayer Page Update 3
I want to start this update to the prayer list today with some great news. Sue Westbrook, who we have been praying for, has had her last chemo treatment. She will have another PET scan in around a month which will reveal if the cancer is completely gone. Let’s pray and believe that the cancer is completely gone from her …
Advent: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
The snow falls in soft whispers as you crunch down the sidewalk. Cars trundle down the road beside you, windshield wipers swishing, swishing as the drivers clench their steering wheels with white knuckles. Breath hisses in ribbons from your mouth, curling up to the blanket of clouds draped high above. A sound drifts up to tickle your ears from off …
Advent: In the Bleak Midwinter
The wind howls through the stark tree branches colored monochrome by chilled bark and crystalline snow. Icicles drape like vines of diamond from ledges and limbs and logs. The world is blanketed by the hush of a fresh snowfall, the stillness thick enough to taste as it presses against the skin and sets hairs on end. No babble from the …
Welcome to the new Byron Leavitt.com!
Welcome to the new Byron Leavitt.com. Having been thoroughly inspired by Guillermo Del Toro’s wonderful book “Cabinet of Curiosities” and videos of his man-cave “Bleak House,” I have begun to fashion this website in a very curious manner. If I live up to my vision it will be a bit like travelling through a museum or house of wonders, something very different …
Why Do You Believe That?
I recently had a very interesting conversation with a young man. We met because he had mocked a belief that I and many others share, so I invited him to talk to me about what his beliefs were on that subject and others. As we talked I learned that he believed that the entire Bible hadn’t happened yet and was …
Wondrous Depths
I am addicted to wonder. So then it is not surprising that I would be absolutely captivated by the ocean’s depths. There are two things that have always convinced me that God is just as weird as I am: the book of Revelation, and the deep ocean. These two have shown me that no matter how strange I feel or …
Prayer Like Summer Rain
I would like to start this post out with a confession. I have read (or tried to read) many, many books on prayer. I have listened to many, many sermons on prayer. And for some reason most of them have, at some point, rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t know exactly what the problem is. I don’t know why …
Reclaiming Halloween
I am on the side of Tim Burton when he says that the two best holidays of the year are Christmas and Halloween. Sure, Easter is great, Thanksgiving is tasty, but for me there’s just nothing else that comes close to Christmas and Halloween. (And if you don’t believe me, stop by my house sometime. Still don’t believe me? Ask …
Prayer Page Update 2
Hello everyone! Here is a new update for the prayer page. Thank you so much for the overwhelming response to this page: it is such a blessing to me and everyone who is affected by your prayers. I don’t have many updates on current friends on the page, but I do have several new ones. First of all, let’s be …