Tag: kingdom of God
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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…
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Storing Up
Bare feet in the October afternoon we peel apart the flowering silks of season-ending sweet corn; the scent of sugared earth floats as we tear the still-green leaves revealing rows of cobbed kernels. Snapping free the stalk and tossing aside the husk, we lay the ear by for blanching. The girls yank and pull and…
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The Yoking (A Prayer for Unity, Christian and Otherwise)
We are caught inside this swath of love this massive yoking where we love one and are all-loving, this massive yoking where we love all and are love’s focusing. Christ’s mystery and enigma, this yoking love, this kingdom becoming. But in moments beneath love’s canopy when rain falls for the thirsty and light shines for…
Amy Secrist 