Going through the papers on my desk, I found the copy–folded and crinkled and doodled upon–of the prayer I once prayed in a dedication service. I wondered, when I found it, how I could once have made such huge promises so wholeheartedly. It does not look easy, looking at it now, not easy at all. […]
I’ve been thinking a bit about the past year, not pinning anything down, but allowing the thoughts to swirl through the back parts of my brain where I dream and intuit and change. Last year didn’t go as I planned it. I was going to have Turtle Heart with a publisher this year, but I’m still
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1.”The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” If you consider the heavens, the multiverses of stars far-flung through vast space, the spiral arms of our galaxy only an atom in a larger unknown–what is man, that Christ came? I read this paraphrase of John 1:14 in The Message once, and it stuck, ringing
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Some people fear spiders and death. As a Mennonite young person, my greatest fear was to play volleyball in a group of strange young people, especially if they were “cool.” Especially if they were good at volleyball. I wasn’t. I’d fumbled the ball, been rainbowed, or been otherwise humiliated more times than I cared to
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I had so many of them, Father, and you took them from me. You didn’t snatch them or threaten; you simply held them, waiting, while I, kicking and screaming, tried to reach. “No,” you said, and your voice was kind. The scratches did not hurt you; the screams did not move you; you waited while
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