Tag: hope
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Shifting Focus
The iced trees still reach skyward, their sheathed branches waiting, the crystal water sparkling like a million earth-bound stars, so many miniature spheres of fire yet nothing melts. The thing that covers us in grief, ashen and blank, covers us golden.
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One Season Out of Many
“Love is patient.” ~ 1 Corinthians 13:4 Greetings, Kind Readers, I posted this over at thecatholicyogi.com, but I felt it was fitting for this space, as well. I hope you enjoy the prose in the midst of all the poetry. It is a new year in the Christian Church calendar, and a new season is…
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A Prayer for Right-Seeing
There are times it requires the entire will, every muscle fiber, each heart-string, to see those squashed banana pieces as jewels, the bread crumbs as confetti, the demands as opportunities for love. There are times I feel the heart reaching, insisting, pulling on the harness of right-seeing, yoking these phyical moments to the ever-lasting instant.…
Amy Secrist 