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The Christian will express deep joy, deep sorrow, and deep hope.
Deep joy is laughter in the face of imminent death. Each of us will die, either in a moment from now or in decades, but die we will. And because the Christian knows that this transition leads only to a new and unending [...]
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Chesed / cinquain
Chesed:
Primordial love.
Trinity’s rescue plan—
Gloriously scandalizing—
Jesus.
photo: Tod Polson
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Tears at the altar
I am not Jerome Morrow.
Somewhere between discussing the new Battlestar Galactica with my brother Jim, getting un-friended on Facebook, and witnessing the wedding of my cousin Isabel, all within a span of 48 hours, I gained a new appreciation for the human race. Or at least that segment of our unique species that doesn’t un-friend [...]
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Since I liked the number 17, I scanned the list of sponsors’ names and found the seventeenth: “Ray W.” The list was written in various inks and in pencil on poster board and tacked with thumbnails to the paneled wall over the water fountain. I wrote down Ray W.’s phone number, sat through the hour-long [...]
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Being a man of few words
Though I worked until nearly midnight last night and was dog tired, having got three hours of sleep the night before, I tossed for most of my six hours in the sack, trying not to wake my wife and thinking about that blasted NPR story on the “six-word memoir” that one of my Facebook friends posted.
I [...]
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