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By the Sheep Gate (II)
How to make sense of all the years before he took your hand and pulled you to your feet? The helplessness you felt there in the dust with legs that…
Mar 24
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After Feeding the Five Thousand
You gather up the fragments which remain that none be lost: the things we could have been (quite what, who knows, but something more than this…
Mar 3
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September 2023
Ad Infinitum
How often can a heart break and survive? Ask Leah, the unbeautiful, unloved, or Jacob, holding his son’s bloodstained coat, or Joseph, friendless in a…
Sep 10, 2023
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August 2023
28 Days
Ache so deep within. Bright red blood. My body mourns the loss of something good that could have been (but wasn’t) and the life I could have had, where…
Aug 27, 2023
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Sarah (II)
The olives would be ripe for picking now and someone’s hand would pluck them from their stems as she had hoped to do and carry them across her sunlit…
Aug 6, 2023
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July 2023
Mary of Bethany
Perhaps it wasn’t easy for her either. Perhaps she felt the urgent tug her sleeve as much as Martha did and had to fight for stillness as she sat there…
Jul 9, 2023
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March 2023
The Shunammite Woman
All is well. Through those long years of arms that ache to hold a child as others do, all is well. All is well— oh yes, how well! The gift, unasked, is…
Mar 5, 2023
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February 2023
After Psalm 139
You've searched me with a surgeon's skillful hands, probing the places deep inside of me to find the source of pain, relentless in your quest to wound…
Feb 26, 2023
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No Matter What
No matter what, your answer is the same: be real with God and tell him how you feel. Slow down, be still, be honest with yourself and with the Lord. It…
Feb 12, 2023
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You
I was a sapling battered by the storm; you are the fence I’ve lashed myself against. I was a child frightened of the dark; you are the one who tells me…
Feb 5, 2023
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January 2023
Winter Daffodils
How bittersweet it was, the other day, to see two daffodils in fullest bloom in January. Dear things, you’ve come too soon. The winter world is cruel…
Jan 22, 2023
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[hiatus]
Hello, kind friends. I hope your new year has had a joy-filled, peaceful beginning. I’m taking a break from posting for a week or two but plan to be…
Jan 8, 2023
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