Tag: family life
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Sweet Emmanuel
Chocolate milk in the morning,knee-high hugs good-bye,chocolate-spotted suit pants,dark stains that won’t dry. In what disguise will he turn up today?Distressing, calm, or well?It seems he sleeps and wakes within us,sweet, Sweet Emmanuel. We are each a Christ to one another,each harnessing a dove.We are Christ to each other,loving and being loved. …
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Waiting Through
The glass door is decorated with nose-smudges,tongue-presses, and who-knows-what kinds of fingerprintswhile the Christmas window-clings lie sparkling on the floor. Advent has popped upon the top of me,quick on the heels of a slow-in-coming Autumn,a Thanksgiving whose late appearance leaves me rattling. Our hand-made turkeys still hang on the wall,probable witnesses to the Epiphany this…
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A Prayer for Patience
O most Holy Lord, who has waited for us so long, who continues to wait for us each time we fail, each time we turn away, instill in me the virtue of patience so that I might be more like you. Grant me the grace I need to be patient with my husband when he…
Amy Secrist 