Love holds on

December 7, 2010

a voice wrinkles, cadence unsteady, ballad off key brushing against currents to scratch and scribble betwixt heat and brunt and chill and manacle image in ripples is seen not me what is central, quintessential, besieged   Earth to sky quavers cantada heavy, weak is the plea but virtue in words truth unaffected a heaven ensconsed […]

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Love says thank you 1000 times #’s 37-53

December 6, 2010

I am grateful… 37. for days that simmer slowly, where moments don’t escape notice, where I let life simmer – and I absorb the minutes as I meet them. 38. for days where I engage in the time as it passes, and  I live in the present, even, steady, unwavering,  in the now. 39. for […]

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Love still follows the star

December 3, 2010

  A pinpoint of light Constant at first commonplace now glimmering among the celestial Few would take note or regard but not I for I knew not of this universe, but beyond heavenly radiance essence of God poured into one pinpoint of light To sail above sky above clouds to dart above midnight blue behold […]

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luv is not jelus ann kreg sez i m jelus but i m not

December 2, 2010

Helo I m laska th luv kity ann i rite sumtymz for kreg So th uther da i wuz luking owt uv th windo. I du this fore tu protek th howse frum bad things. Peepul don thinc katz r nise lyk this. They thinc thay r shelfish. i m not shelfish. i think abowt […]

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Love stays sorry – even when the sorry is unrequited

December 1, 2010

So it happened. I was careless. I messed up. I apologized. I acknowledged I was wrong. I asked forgiveness. But none was forthcoming. The backlash was quick and devastating and crushing. and relentless. And unexpected because the whole thing involved Christians. I can’t judge. There is only one judge. There’s the whole log in the […]

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Love lifts the head, surveys the scene, beholds a higher perspective

November 30, 2010

When she said “Look up. Just look up. Fly.”  The sky unfurled, I could see everything, and I could fly. First I want to thank Melissa @ Sweet Water Blue Sky for inspiring this post with her words. We walked around the plane, checking this, shaking that, it seemed a little too meticulous to me […]

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Love says thank you

November 29, 2010

Happy Monday. And Monday Love says thank you, along with Ann Voskamp and a host of others. A simple list of gratitude stretching toward 1000.   #’s 1-22 are here This day God, I’m grateful … 23. that the Lord of all fashioned the whole universe, to place this planet in the only perfect, favored […]

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