The Night Will Hold You

(This picture was taken by my husband – the night sky over the corn field  across the street from us – isn’t he amazing?)  When the grief you carry  wears your face into a thousand  heavy lines, when the sadness  feels like a...

To Mend a Broken Heart

Flowers help, cut or wild blooms of vibrant hue, also time rolled out in long stretches like bolts of cloth. Air is essential, as well as stories that name in some way the sharp corners of your pain. You will want to lay down on the floor, to feel something solid...

How I Deal With Rejection

My friend Shawn Smucker is hosting a series on his blog called #OvercomeRejection.  I thought about the series for a good long while, then finally came up with this post which Shawn graciously refused to reject. You can start reading here, then click on the link...

Biding the Shadows of Advent

I am still running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.  For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain.  So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were...
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