Jun 16, 2021 | Grace Notes, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris “I’m bored.” We’re only days into summer vacation and I can’t help but wonder how many parents have already heard that phrase uttered a few times. I wonder how many children have already sulked around the house with long faces and mellow-dramatic...
Jun 9, 2021 | Adults, Grace Notes, Reported in the E-Vision
I had been waiting for this night for months. My wife and I left Griffin early to drive to Atlanta for the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit. The show was far from perfect — I wish it had been about twice as long and that higher quality reproductions of his paintings...
Jun 2, 2021 | Grace Notes, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris Summer break is upon us. Both of my boys recently finished their final exams, marking the welcomed end of an unusual school year. As I was thinking about that, I was reminded of a “final exam” posed to Jesus by some of the religious leaders of...
May 26, 2021 | Grace Notes, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris “Here I raise mine Ebenezer; hither by Thy help I’m come.” I distinctly remember holding the hymnal, singing the second verse of Robert Robinson’s classic, “Come Thou Fount,” and thinking, “What in the world are we singing?” At the time, my only...
May 19, 2021 | Grace Notes, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris My first “unofficial” date with my wife came at a homecoming dance at the University of Southern Mississippi. In the midst of a night of swing dancing, our friendship developed into something more substantial. She tells me that I duped her...
May 12, 2021 | Grace Notes, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris The great American poet, Emily Dickinson, once said, “If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry.”...
