The next time you go for a walk, feel your feet walking across the ground. What do your footsteps sound like? Listen to their speech. What are they saying? Do…
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Right now I’m challenged by my faith and my failure to follow Jesus properly. Yet the basic story of Easter is reassuring and freeing.
During chores, I turn the radio to NPR, because I’m fascinated with current events. My attention is so fixed I almost worship the whole drama. But what good does that…
Ash Wednesday Because I do not hope to turn againBecause I do not hopeBecause I do not hope to turnDesiring this man’s gift and that man’s scopeI know longer strive…
We have an elm that towers over our barn. The wind rocks her branches and I see a big woman, her eyes closed, swaying as if to fierce prayers.
For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and…
Just Friends I was the girl they gave the safe hearts to. –the candies with notes stamped in red.I couldn’t be trusted with Adore or Kiss MeAnytime because the boys…
With freezing rain last week, then cold, with no warmth to melt it, the weather reaches for my neck, bites hard, leaving a mark. I think “batter my heart three-personed…
I stood in Tessie’s stall sifting shavings, manure and plates of frozen urine. The barn’s colors were brown tones, the sun shining in through the open door. Both mares were…
I was standing in McDonald’s, waiting for my Egg McMuffin, standard fare after Weight Watchers, when a man tapped me on the shoulder and said, “You’re Katie. I had you…