....and I want to do more than is even possible. I'm writing a blog post right now. BUT I WANT TO WRITE A PLAY! I went to an aerial class tonight. BUT I WANT TO GO TO AN ACRO CLASS AND A DUO-AERIAL CLASS! I carved a linoblock last week. I HAVE FOUR MORE IDEASContinue reading "The problem is that…I want to do everything"
On our history
An Easter poem The lie of the Garden With apple and the snake Was that God didn't really love us, And we listened, with an ache An ache that tore us from God As in sorrow we left. (Though God, with heart-wide-rendered Gave us second-chance, through death). The lie of the sacrifice Of Abraham andContinue reading "On our history"
I didn’t expect it to look like this
On the eve of my thirty-first birthday, I sat around the kitchen table my parents bought early in their marriage, and I sat there with two other women as we hashed out, after a prayer to the Holy Spirit, a conference in the late fall for men and women addicted to pornography, for men andContinue reading "I didn’t expect it to look like this"
Tonight
Was going to go to : Circus class Instead I felt a little under the weather due to a few suspected culprits: Maybe ate some gluten Maybe got sneezed in the face by a li'l baby Maybe cleaned the bathroom at work and didn't wear gloves and some of the floor-suds splashed into my faceContinue reading "Tonight"
A Catechism
Who made us? God made us. God who made the Rocky Mountains and the way grass smells after it has been cut and the way breath turns to curling fog in the cold also made us. He had light dance through prisms and wind rustle through leaves and moss grow on places like roots andContinue reading "A Catechism"
A prayer about planning
The hard thing about making a five- or ten-year plan, God, is that: you're much better at imagining than I am. You possess working knowledge of all of the hairs on all of the heads of every human who ever was, is, or ever will be, plus you direct the cosmos--all the stars and planetsContinue reading "A prayer about planning"
A small price to pay
We, familiar with this kind of thing, knew the cost. We knew we would wake up Ill-rested, Tired, Eyelids swollen, Sleep inadequate, Head slightly pulsing from the late housrs and the wine of the night before. A night in a basement-restaurant And stories of our youth And memories gilded with laughter And our passionate hopesContinue reading "A small price to pay"
24. The exercise of prayer
"What do you think is the most affective form of exercise?" The question was posed to me by my sister, a student of athletics and medicine at the graduate level. I started suggesting a list to her, "Aerobics? Swimming? Triathlon?" Finally, she gave the answer, "It's the one that you DO." Oh, of course. HowContinue reading "24. The exercise of prayer"
23. Dreams are free
This one is best read aloud. (And, even better, to someone you love). Dreams are free, my dear child, Dreams are free, free, free, Like the stars in the sky 'Neath the tall pine trees Like the wash of the pebbles On the floor of a stream, Like the whisper of mosses, Like a feather'sContinue reading "23. Dreams are free"
22. Old dreams
When we are children, we are asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and the question is laden with so many unknowns--the unknown of what we want, the unknown of what being a grown-up is even like, the unknown of where life will take us. And so, we try on anyContinue reading "22. Old dreams"
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