Tag: thanksgiving
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Mystery breaks
I am living, loading the dishwasher, driving the van, matching socks, when my little ones say, “I miss God.” I know this missing. One day I stood in my house, my bed, my dishes, my tables and chairs all around, and my heart cried, I want to go home. These mysteries break my heart. I watch…
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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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Writer’s Prayer
Lord, you know my heart before I do, for in you it has been created. You know my joy and desire, my sadness and fear, and it is you who instills in me this inclination to write it out, you who inspires my songs, my lament and my celebration. Let your Spirit inspire me again,…
Amy Secrist 