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four authors reflect on The Coming
I. "Simeon's Song" by Luke "God, you can now release your servant; release me in peace as you promised. With ...
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Craziness All Together.
The house is full of craziness, but it's all spread out. I want the craziness all together. Crazy Dad is in the garage, drinking South...
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Christ's Nativity
by Henry Vaughn Awake, glad heart! get up and sing! It is the birth-day of thy King. Awake! awake! The Sun doth shake L...
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To Jesus on His Birthday
by Edna St. Vincent Millay For this your mother sweated in the cold, For this you bled upon the bitter tree: A yard of tinsel ribbon bou...
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Advent
by Mary Jo Salter Wind whistling, as it does in winter, and I think nothing of it until it snaps a shutter off her bedroom window, s...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The first in a series of works by other authors which I am unimaginatively calling "Poems for the Christmas Season." We begin with...
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Jesus went around saying crazy things.
" You must be born again. " How are we supposed to do that? " Drink my blood and eat my flesh; in this there is life . &qu...
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The Most Dangerous Woman
The most dangerous woman on earth is the woman who has reckoned with her own death. All women die; few women ever really live .* ...
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"How's it going?" Or "Sometimes Life is Just Good."
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So I'm re-reading Nouwen's "In the Name of Jesus."
I sat on my couch one evening in the dark, fast forwarding a tape. As the casette advanced, the numbers on my stereo rapidly counted up fr...
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My husband and I have this game.
We're not always playing it... and yet we are. The goal is to be as stealthy as possible, to be wily and artful and devious, to reall...
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Kessia Reyne, Judge of All
A very strange thing happened to me today. It was disconcerting and wonderful. I had been judging my friend. Like, rolling my eyes and ...
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me thinking about the church. part 3.
When it comes to change (*gasp! *choke!) in the church, we are often handicapped, our legs taken right out from under us, because change m...
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me thinking about the church. part 2.
I do have a great many thoughts about the church, but when I read my friend Andrea's post on her thoughts about the church, I knew I...
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me thinking about the church. part 1.
I have to admit that though I love being part of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, any just-out-of-the-box naivete that I ...
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The thorn and the gift.
I will not burden you with the full story; you don't have time, and I'm not sure I have the energy. But I couldn't help but shar...
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Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
In the heart of a golden barley field lies a man, staring up at the clear sky. The sun and the wind wash over him, but he does not blink. T...
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How many, Joshua?
Joshua pushes his body to the limits... one grape at a time. It's slobbery.
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Probably we would eat pizza.
I have a friend who is really hurting, but I can't do much to help. I pray for him, I offer encouragement, but I can't fix hi...
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There's nothing worse than a terrible marriage, and nothing better than a great one.
The man that I hope to shelter all the days of my life My husband is three miles away and he's coming home in a half hour, but I call...
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Caution! thrown to the wind.
I'm naturally pretty wimpy. No, it's true--don't try to make me feel better. (As if anyone would try to convince me otherwise.) ...
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Forgive me this sin
It's strange that we can be so uncomfortable with acknowledging personal sin and yet so comfortable in committing it. Every Friday nig...
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homesickness.
All my life I've lived without getting homesick. As a kid, I loved sleepovers and trips. I never missed my family. I wasn't sad abou...
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lunch and Christmas in May
A crowded restaurant, bustling with patrons and filled with the chatter of conversation and the clatter of silverware. Our table, scattered ...
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as a Christian missionary
"For the first time in my life I know what I must do off in lonesome Lanao. I know why God left this aching void, for Himself to fill. ...
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If only
"If only" is the hammer I smash my thumb with.
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the thing I might want least right now
tips. that's what I don't want right now. I think that if I took all the tips that are foisted on me, I could easily spend 26 hour...
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Craziness All Together.
Christ's Nativity
To Jesus on His Birthday
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Jesus went around saying crazy things.
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The Most Dangerous Woman
"How's it going?" Or "Sometimes Life is Just Good....
So I'm re-reading Nouwen's "In the Name of Jesus."...
My husband and I have this game.
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The thorn and the gift.
Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
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How many, Joshua?
Probably we would eat pizza.
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