Tag: children
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We Wake To Hope (A Poem for My Husband)
As if their bedrooms hung with vines all around they sleep and dream of fun and frightful things, nestled in blankets of soft straw and grasses, bedding made of cozy sticks and silent leaves. As if they were little wild things in their caves they wake and stretch their jaws with long yawns, their round faces…
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Givingbirds Light
These little birds flit around the house lighting here and there, sitting on the counters, standing on the chairs, zooming through the kitchen. They make “holy spirit water” and play church, wedding, and workers, after post office, house, and kitchen-shopping. Screaming-mad and cackling-happy these growing-up friends make their way through the days and I watch…
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God beyond God
“God is always beyond God, the iconoclast par excellence, who over and over breaks out of the forms and symbols of our making.” ~ Bernard J. Lee, SM I stand at the sink scrubbing the shiny steel pan when my littlest one asks me to read. I ask for his patience, one, two, three…
Amy Secrist 