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“Shared Hells: A Lenten Meditation” (essay by Peter Kreeft)
During the days and weeks leading up to Easter (Lent), I often like to pick up this little book titled "Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter." One of the readings in the book which I have found meaningful and enjoyable is called "Shard Hells" by Peter Kreeft....
The Making (A Lenten Poem)
The Making Scattered, broken particles must be remade after life on earth snaps, crushes each bone, sinew, and organ into first-born molecules Dust catches in throat— chokes irrelevancy Smeared ashes reconstruct into wooden cross beams unmade – made –...
What We Have in Common…
"Mr. B is homebound. Until last year, however, he was “schlepping around” in his kitchen, baking his own bread, and cooking and hosting Sabbath supper at his home for his adult children every Friday night. Mr. B. is originally from Ukraine, Jewish and...
The “Holiness of Diversity”
Diversity. What does it mean? I've been learning more recently about what that means, and what I think God is asking from me. I'm being challenged with acknowledging my own misperceptions and biases. I'm being challenged to stand face to face with my own background...
Emily Dickinson – poems
It’s all I have to bring today It’s all I have to bring today— This, and my heart beside— This, and my heart, and all the fields— And all the meadows wide— Be sure you count—should I forget Some one the sum could tell— This, and my heart, and all the Bees Which in the...
Praying (poem by Mary Oliver)
“Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them...
“the shadow and the soul”
“I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” –Pablo Neruda Translated by Mark Eisner Sonnet 17 ***
Beginnings
It's the place we come back to: the place we started. It's the first step to any dream: taking a step, however small it might be. At the end of a task, we remember where we began, where it all started. An Olympic athlete looks back to those first attempts. A...
More Than
What I give: Barely. Enough. What He gives? More than. When I'm fed up, I say, "I've had enough!" What He says? "I AM." What I offer? Just. What He offers me? More than. It's always this, Him giving more than, Him being more than. The equation-- it...
Stories. Safe Places. Writers. Friends.
We all need a creative outlet. We all need a safe place. Writers need to write. Writers need a safe place to write. We all need a safe place to be ourselves. We all need a safe place to mouth off. We all need a safe place to cry. True friends...
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