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There is a very slow blooming bud On the flowering cactus you gifted me A sign of promise and expectation A reminder that no one Can see the future. I watch it daily though it’s color seems hardly to change Wondering when and praying over and over How long oh Lord? As the prophet wrote,…
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During Lent, I’ll be writing six hymns that capture the spirit of reflection for the season. I will publish them on Sunday mornings. All the hymns will be set to well known tunes, so they will be easily shareable and singable upon reading. Hymn 3 is titled Be Balm and Sweet Relief and uses the…
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10/18/22 2:11 pm Hey sis. Did you talk to dad? Not today. Why? He ok? uh… well idk. What do you know about what’s going on with him and Bobby? His neighbor? The pharmacy guy? Yeah, him. Did you know they got into a fight? About what? Jessica Oh. That doesn’t sound good. I’ll call…
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During Lent, I’ll be writing six hymns that capture the spirit of reflection for the season. I will publish them on Sunday mornings. All the hymns will be set to well known tunes, so they will be easily shareable and singable upon reading. Hymn 2 is titled Man of Sorrows and uses the same tune…
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Winter is unending The sun hidden Beneath perpetual gray And warmth, if it shows itself, Is fleeting Like spring blossoms Here for now and Then Gone again. And pain is like that too Each hurt an endless ocean Pocketed by islands of relief A word, a smile, a touch From someone who loves you And…
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During Lent, I’ll be writing six hymns that capture the spirit of reflection for the season. I will publish them on Sunday mornings. All the hymns will be set to well known tunes, so they will be easily shareable and singable upon reading. Hymn 1 is titled Sit in Silence and in Prayer and uses…
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How easily you threw me away With the rest of the thoughts that made you Confront yourself and ask What is wrong with me? What was wrong with me That you deemed me Unusable, unsalvageable, unwanted Trash And discarded me like the thoughts you couldn’t think The feelings you couldn’t feel And the facts you…
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Show me where In the gospel you proclaim It instructs to dismiss The person who offends you, Who has hurt you, with malice Or without Sending them to sit elsewhere Until you are ready to talk again. Show me where In the gospel you preach It calls for punitive measures For someone unrepentant, Unpleasant, unwilling…
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What do you do with your anger After it has desiccated you Leaving your mouth dry with the dust Of tears you never cried Because they evaporated from the heat Of the rage that inflamed you Before they could trail down your hot cheeks? What do you do with anger like that That threatens to…
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Some things are not fixable But I remain hopeful despite The lack of love I find When the air is thick between us. Some things are not fixable At least, they can’t be repaired To look the same as before They must be made new instead. Some things are not fixable Unless time allows the…
The Quick and the Dead
Short stories. Creative experiments. Ideas that might not pan out.
The Quick and the Dead 