Source: Kimberly Mark “They need to wait in line. Go through the proper channels. If I had to, they should, too.”“They’re taking our jobs. They’re taking advantage of our welfare system.”“They could be spies, terrorists,...
Read MoreArtist: Anonymous I waited patiently for the Lord; They inclined to me and heard my cry. – – I asked him if he’d meet me for coffeeOn a cold day, cold for CaliforniaAs the leaves were just beginning to crisp...
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I bought myself a pineapple in December.
Without thinking, plunked it in the basket.
It wasn’t on sale.
It wasn’t particularly colorful
or fragrant.
It was mostly unripe—
Bright green, like bamboo,
With a foreshadowing of yellow.
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Light in the Forest by Adeline DuckerWatercolor, 2018 Holy God,We rest at the foot of Your...
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Photo by Wayne de Klerk on Unsplash A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch...
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Where is our thrill of hope
We have already been downtrodden
Weeping on our knees
We are weary, Lord
Series of poems by Mickey Beatima.
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I’ve made peace with the tenuous understanding that we have. I’m scared of imagining a relationship with my family that’s not fraught with shame and misunderstandings.
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When the ordinary is too much to bear and the days have bled one into another, when the to-do list is too long and everywhere we look seems to demand more than we can give,
Read More“Food is shut within our bodies as in a very beautiful purse. When necessity calls, the purse opens and then shuts again, in the most fitting way. And it is God who does this because I was shown that the Goodness of God...
Read Morethree days
i searched for you
held my breath
dreamt of you
dead
your crown broken
flesh torn open eaten
by your friends
always there was blood
all over my hands
