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Continue reading →: Sunday Two Step
Jesus, keep me from deifying Gravity with those memories Of self-pining, pinned down, Fastened to floors of unforgiving. Lord Jesus, Come help me defy Gravity, grant moments Of rising above With leaps of grace and mercy. When I walk, may it be light Obedient steps Morphing into a…
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Continue reading →: Middle Distance
The mystery is there. The challenge is there. It is there where ideas Are transformed in Their forming. It is where we look When a question gives Us pause. It is where truth Begs to be handled. It lies between myopia And dystopia. It is beyond this moment…
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Continue reading →: Sun Day
Birth again the sun, may it crown the edge of the earth, and spill glory and cast shadows behind all it paints. May we remember from where this light bursts and fills the land in golden revelation. May we squint in gratefulness. “God makes a huge dome For the…
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Continue reading →: Loafer
I don’t want to loaf around, I want to live. I want to end well. Oh Bread of Life, Ever more give me slice after slice. Even crusts of Christ’s body, The You that is hard to swallow, Help me to wash it down With Your blood. …
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Continue reading →: For The Birds
Swooping, chirp-chattering, wings in stasis, gliding on nothing. Which one is the early one, ear to the ground, yanking breakfast? Jenny prayed to be a bird to fly away. I pray so I can fly around. I’ll skip the worm if birds can skip.
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Continue reading →: Prayer About What’s Bugging Me
Look what the locusts have eaten with their bellies distended and all. I pray for anorexia nervosa on the whole lot of them. May their regiments hold fast to a fast. May they retreat from treats. May their locus lose its control. Lord, command them to cease and desist as…
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Continue reading →: Conversations With God Part Three. Beauty.
Beauty. Yes? You said beauty was one of three things from which we bind ourselves. We? How about narrowing it down to just you. Beauty and you. You mean beauty and the beast? No, be careful now. Don’t put words in My mouth. I simply want to focus on your…
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Continue reading →: Focus Pocus
Attention split like an atom, Particles of thought splayed On smooth cold marble. Media outlets selling Discounted sound bites I don’t chew or taste. Easy to swallow But hard to digest… As if I give a second To a second thought, I just keep stuffing, Jamming info…
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Continue reading →: Communion
When I received a snowflake on my tongue Someone whispered “Body of Christ.” “Amen” I said.
Gerald the Writer 