Nov 6, 2022 | lament, relationships
Let me go, for the long night has run its course. Let me go, and release me into the dawning day. Let me go, for now I have wrestled long enough. Let me go, and do not keep me for your own blessing. Let me go, for my life has paid your price twice over. Let me go, and...
Aug 2, 2020 | blessing, faith, prayer
Let me behold your face, I prayed, but instead you met me in the dark and bent me into painful knots. Let me be relieved, I pleaded, and instead you laid a path among my adversaries. Let me prove my heart, I declared, but instead you withdrew to tend the song of...
Oct 20, 2019 | hope, lament, prayer
Though our teeth are set on edge, O God, let us never forget your name. Though the night is long with wrestling, O God, let us never forget your blessing. Though the sun and moon strike us, O God, let us never forget your help. Though the litany of lies grows, O God,...
May 7, 2015 | Bible, scripture
If love favored her, life betrayed her. Hardly a fair trade and if she had been given a choice who’s to say she wouldn’t have preferred life? What do we remember: we remember her weeping, not her loving, not her living; we remember the wail of her death....
May 6, 2015 | Bible, poem, scripture, stories
Do not look in her eyes where dreams have died. Instead by her hips be gladly distracted; watch her hands — busy tending life. Where dreams have died, instead she has planted dogged resolve. Watch her hands — busy tending life in love’s...
