Amy Secrist

Tag: getting ready

  • A Getting-Ready Prayer

    A Getting-Ready Prayer

    puts on bracelets:          God be in my arms and in my strength in my lifting embracing and letting go puts in earrings:             God be in my ears and in my hearing in my listening understanding and honoring puts on necklace:            God be in my throat and in my speaking in my conversing expressing and silence-keeping…

  • Bending

    I bend and snap closed her pink heart-covered raincoat, my knees creaking, the fabric swishing. I sweep back a lock of her wavy blonde hair and click the purple flower clip into place. We will rush for shoes and boots and bag. She cries when she’s tired, only she doesn’t know that’s the reason. I…