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Category Archives: Poems
Mother, We Never Asked…
A tribute poem to her mother written by Madelyn Chen, titled “Never Asking”: Winter nights we wore socks to bed and still shuddered like thin panes against the wind. We rubbed our hands together. We pulled the blanket past our noses. … Continue reading
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Tagged Madelyn Chen, Mother's Day, Mothering, Mothers Day, Never asking, Never asking if our mother needed warmth
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“I only pray when I ain’t got a prayer”
I want to highlight a prophetic echo from popular culture – something that expresses a truth about the mystery of God that is not self evident from culture itself. Recently Country singer Jason Deford (who goes by the name “Jelly … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Prayers
Tagged A cry for prayer, Agony of Prayerlessness, Jelly Roll, Need a Favor, Prophetic Echo, Son of a Sinner
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Let him easter in us
“Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us…” Line for Gerard Manley Hopkins epic poem ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’. Shortly after Easter last year my mentor and friend James M. Houston wrote: Hopkins captures my … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Prayers, Proverbs
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It’s like she left…
In the image above it appears that the son is fading from his mother’s memory, or from her ability to recognize him. It is not that she is fading, it is rather that everything around her is. The image seems to … Continue reading
Unsatisfied Desire
As a follow up to her 1983 exhibit “Unsatisfied Desire” in the Paul Andriesse Gallery in Amsterdam, Marlene Dumas provides another art form through which to explore this topic. What caught my attention was her understanding of art not as … Continue reading
Come… Give us Breath
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: by George Herbert Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a way as gives us breath; Such a truth as ends all strife, Such a life as killeth death. Come, my Light, … Continue reading
You find it hard to believe, but…
When it comes to God’s unfailing love – His steadfast, loyal, self-giving love – God’s jealousy for us is not a “compound of frustration, envy and spite, as human jealousy so often is, but appears instead as a (literally) praiseworthy … Continue reading
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