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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...
"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...
I am wound too tight by schedules and piles these days while quiet lingers always out of grasp, and so many bodies in tight spaces can overwhelm a heart longing for reverberation. His voice, it seems, comes to me like pond ripples, such a subtle vibration that I’m...
I'm curled up with my cream-colored plush throw to read in preparation for a High Calling book club discussion, when my daughter-in-law calls. My son's vertigo is back, and he's begging to go to the emergency room. I sigh. Not again. When it happens, it happens out of...
Wearing her pink and green pajama pants and an overcoat, she scuffs through...
We hang the bluebird feeder from the geranium hook on the porch. Fill it with...
I glance out the window and gasp. "Grace, come quick! Run! Hurry!" When her...
They found the lump in August. By September she was bald. The wall of her...
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