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Wholehearted
“I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.” – Psalm 86:12 My heart is fractured, God. Let’s face it, it’s been broken bythe disappointments and betrayals ofmy all-too-human life. What mortar canrebuild the broken soul? My heart is fractured, God. My heart is torn by contradictions, pulling mefrom one side to the other. Ifit were a matter…
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Like Jesus
“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.” – Matthew 11:18-19 There was a time they said I looked like Jesus. Ihad grown my hair quite long, and wore a beardwhose scraggly thinness I would not…
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Don't You Think I'd Rather Tell You What I Want to Hear?
“And the prophet Jeremiah said, ‘Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD fulfill the words that you have prophesied and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD and all the exiles.'” – Jeremiah 28:6 I hoped I’d have a simple life. I hadambition, certainly. I would succeedbut in a nation resting in its justice, peace,its people living all in righteousness. It was…
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Cast Out This Slave Woman with Her Son
“But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham, ‘Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.'” – Genesis 21:9-10 They laughed, the boys at play.How many mothers watched? But onesaw threat and dissolution ofthe wealth expected for her own. How…
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But I Can't
“[Jesus said,] ‘As you go, proclaim the good news, “The kingdom of heaven has come near.” Cure the sick; raise the dead; cleanse those with a skin disease; cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.'” – Matthew 10:7-8 Give without payment, O Lord? But I can’t.How will I eat, where will I sleep,if I don’t have a contract or letter of call? What do you mean, life has no…
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Praise the Poet
God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. – Genesis 1:31 Praise the Poet, Breath and Wind and Word,who movement on the waters stirred up lightand night and land and sea, stars and planet whirlingon the cosmographic page. Praise the Poet, summoning the earth to green abundance,summoning the seas to swarm with…
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Flexible Hope
“But filled with the Holy Spirit, he [Stephen] gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.” – Acts of the Apostles 7:55 I wonder about Stephen, what he knewwhen he was brought before the council ofthe priests. Did he expect they’d hear him out?Or see the door as gateway to his grave? Oh what a fool he was to speak the wordshe did if he had hope they’d…
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Stones
“Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, ‘Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.'” – John 11:39 The first stones were the threats,the stones they reached for when you said,“The Father and I are one.” They calledit blasphemy, and well, it would beif it weren’t true. Given the risk of stones, which thrown,break bones,…
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