by Dr. Bill Maynard | Jun 4, 2022 | Music
Sabbath of the Heart Like a child on a Sabbath night, dreamy-eyed in the candlelight, Expectant yet restful, eager but secure. In the timeless interplay – the sacred and the everyday, The holy yet humble, the passionate and pure. CHORUS: So we’re resting in His...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Apr 24, 2022 | Writings
GLORY AND BEAUTY All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. – Gerard Manley Hopkins A WORLD RE-VISUALIZED...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Apr 16, 2022 | Music
This song is about three decisive moments in the history of humankind. Each took place in a Garden, and they are all similar in many regards. Each marked our failure, but also showed how God lovingly conquers amid our sin and stumbling. The first garden (Eden) was...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Mar 8, 2022 | Writings
MISSING THE POINT As I studied the object placed in my hand by my new patient, Alice Thorner, realization dawned on me. Alice’s husband, Bobby, had been trying to tell me about her problems, but his words were ineffective. I had failed to grasp their significance. ...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Feb 19, 2022 | Writings
CLAMORING FOR ATTENTION For the first week that I knew Alice Thorner I hardly laid eyes on her face. That’s because it was always buried in her hands. Alice was a new patient, a 62 year old homemaker with silver hair and an average build. I believe her eyes were...
