Little Archie’s story is darker, more desperate, and yet drearily familiar. - Stephen R. Lawhead

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

Over and over again, we see that when anyone willingly gives whatever resources they have to Him — whether it is nothing more than five smooth stones gathered from a dry streambed or five little loaves of bread and two dried sprats — then God’s greater purpose can proceed. Small and insignificant? Undoubtedly. But on the day of decision, everything depended on those five smooth stones — with them, David killed Goliath and saved a nation.

As I understand it, the Celts venerated all sorts of plexus-type things: the seashore, dawn, dusk, the edge of the forest - anything that was neither here nor there, so to speak.