Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Leaving
She wondered, where had the time gone? It seemed just yesterday they played, and held hands on the way to the park to fly together down the slide or up two swings side by side. Now she is gone, she … Continue reading
Filed under Random Acts of Poetry
Easter Prerequisite
In shopping malls, men and women wear long fuzzy ears and a bunny mouth fixed in a static grin. Parents and grandparents with their children stand in line for a ten-dollar photo with the Easter Bunny. A shopping woman with … Continue reading
Filed under Death to Self, Easter
To Repent Is To Prepare
John is the messenger sent to prepare the Lord’s way. What does it mean to prepare the way of Jesus? John’s voice cries out. He cries out in the wilderness—the dry, barren, difficult place of isolation, heat, thirst. This is … Continue reading
Filed under Repentance
City Girl, Small Town
(For Dena Dyer’s community writing project on cross-cultural experiences.) I lived in Israel where pita and bread cost only a few coins, children really did call their dads “Abba,” conversation depth went well below the surface within seconds, the front … Continue reading
Filed under Community Writing Projects
Living with Headaches
Lately, my life has been one long headache. I’m not talking about the figurative “headaches” of stress or inconveniences but actual, physiological headaches. My migraines began at about age ten, and I normally had them about once a year. Now … Continue reading
Filed under Change
Rock Heart
The forgiven heart turned from cold stone to flesh is the heart that finds hearts among stones. The forgiven is he who can see hearts in the gravel. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a … Continue reading
Filed under Random Acts of Poetry
