a life incredible, vivid, excellent.
oh papa, the fields are plowed under oh papa, the seeds are all salt oh papa, the tree’s burned to cinders oh papa, we know it’s our fault oh papa, the babies are crying oh papa, the streets run with blood oh papa, look, everyone’s dying oh papa, how can this bring good? oh papa,…
Read Morewhat if the Bread were not broken? what if the Wine were not spilled? what if the Word were unspoken? what are we if death were not killed? but broken indeed was His body and poured out the wine of His blood eternal the promise He’s spoken unending the life of His love
Read Moreanyone need true insight? nothingness terrifies; incarnation absolves tortured innocent, absolute nonentity I Am nailed there
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at our little suburban church the communion feast is free of allergens and alcohol the bread crumbles into the cup of grape juice if you’re not careful i thought the blood of Christ was stronger stuff than this — at the Anglican Church i kneel at the altar rail to receive the Body and the…
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debtors sprung from jail trespassers’ fences mended sins made obsolete
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if i believe in a God omniscient then i must trust God knew this from before the beginning if i believe in a God omnipotent then i must trust God’s is the hand that guides if i believe in a God omnibenevolent then i must trust God’s love is something rich and strange if i…
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as the world dies, Lord we await resurrection spring melting the snow
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once in the west — shades of grey; daylight and nightmare; ruins & kingdoms; tremendous trifles courage, dear heart — till we have faces in the year of jubilation … the knowledge of the holy; the place of the lion; the lay of the Lord — — — — — Written for Writer’s Digest’s November…
Read Moreevery bone longs for home every pore, every cell every corpuscle bustling through our veins every ache reminds of what should have been every pang recounts what should not be but, for now, is — and into this You were born You, little serpent slayer entered the world in the way of all humans exiting…
Read Moremy house has been creaking and groaning lately joints stiffened, spine misaligned old wounds throbbing with the shift in the weather for the first time i noticed a silver thread among the cowlick hair shocked upright by the scar that arcs down my head it joins the company of others earlier earned i am still…
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