The pain, the memories walloped me with fear and anger when someone brought up X. “Make friends,” they said. I was startled by the sudden pain, how terrible memories flashed…
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May Spring walloped me upside the head. All I wanted to do was lie down and sleep. I was tapped out by the bright washed beauty springing out of the…
I’m lonely. I’m a fool for admitting it because it will scare you off. Who wants to be friends with someone who is lonely? You figure there’s a reason she’s…
During Holy Week, Jesus mourned over the destruction he saw coming to Jerusalem. His beautiful city wrecked. The Temple where Heaven met Earth taken apart stone by stone. People butchered….
Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Preachers quoted this scripture at the end of sermons, hoping to entice us to walk up the aisle…
Morgan Guyton, a Facebook friend, posted that he would be holding a prayer meeting on the app Zoom at 10 p.m. Central time as a response to the #MeToo movement….
Sometimes a week goes so far awry — your routine is disrupted, your work doesn’t get worked — that you feel helpless as a hog on ice, struggling to get…
I stared at a man in the booth across Arby’s, he was dressed in a leather coat with fringe, his sleeve had a stylized cross and he wore pointy toed…
Even though the days are lengthening and my horses will begin shedding by the end of January, we are at the beginning of the bleak time. The ratchet up…
Christmas runs a finger along the cracks in my soul, so they splinter and spread like windshield glass that a pebble has struck. It lays a hand on my love…