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When fear creeps in, clinging, I hear a voice say, “Open.” When I leave, by well-worn mental paths, the time, the place, the space I’m in, I hear a voice say, “Return.” When I watch the boys on bikes chasing round and round the van in the driveway, when I see my...
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Easter weekend I made my favorite icing, tinted it pink and worked with a wide butter knife to spread it across the gentle curves of lemon cupcakes. It was my Grandmother’s recipe, the only icing I’ve ever really liked. The recipe got me...
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I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. – C.S. Lewis What keeps me from the joy and wonder of This Day, This Moment, is the Dream, the Longing, to be in some Other...
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You have to return to the tomb to experience resurrection. Return to the place where once you knew without doubt all hope was gone, the last dying gasp of breath expelled. Then silence, stillness and the great tearing open of sky and earth. The first sign...
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The boy called for his brother in the dark hallway as I sat reading in bed by a quiet, yellow light. Following my voice, he arrived and fell into bed and sleep simultaneously, like some ripe ...
