It's the morning after the morning we remembered the mourning and celebrated the Morning. D has risen early again, because it's Monday and time to move into a new week of busyness as usual. I want to burrow down under white down, but there's a light that shines in the...
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in which i stretch out my palms
I stretch out on the blue carpet in front of the family room fireplace, palms up. And I beg God to let me feel the pain, to identify with what Jesus experienced as spikes seared his flesh. But as I wait in the stillness, I sense these words. "It is finished. Done....
pondering a fall
She'd just climbed up and in when it fell apart and down. The neighbor man made it for my mother-in-love and her sister when they were young. "The last girl to get married," he said, "gets to keep it." Mom gave the set to us shortly after our wedding. That bed's...
a fragrant offering
"O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge...
breath by breath
I am wound too tight by schedules and piles these days while quiet lingers...
in which my week spins and I center
I'm curled up with my cream-colored plush throw to read in preparation for a...
rainy day resistance
Wearing her pink and green pajama pants and an overcoat, she scuffs through...
when the bluebirds go awol
We hang the bluebird feeder from the geranium hook on the porch. Fill it with...
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