To Think Is To Create —

Crafty Love

February 16, 2010

We were sharing pieces of our love story. The reasons we fell in love with this love, how we kept up that love. How we tended to its needs and the places we went wrong.
We were talking about writing, and our love of it. The craft itself. And we were giddy about it.
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Suffer Well

February 15, 2010

Have you ever
wondered
why God allows suffering?
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We pray and ask and beg Him to stop the suffering
to heal us.
and sometimes He does.
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Other times He lets it linger
at tipping point, or
worsen, even.
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Could it be
He speaks to others

through our suffering?
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That He knows
one thing we all share
is suffering, and
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how we respond to healing
or not healing
is what matters most?
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If we [...]

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Wound Care

February 12, 2010

{…continued from yesterday’s post}
Strong emotions of any kind seem to spurn from the same place. Passion. That passion I felt with “my people”, also brought up my passion for missing Mabel. I tried to ride those waves as best I could, but at times the waves seemed unbearable. I worked to be real with myself [...]

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A Humming Heart

February 11, 2010

I sat at the gate waiting for my flight, willing the clock to go faster so I could board and slink into the window seat and be invisible. I was sensitive about every step of that day, the day traveling to Blissdom. It was a conference I had been planning on attending for months, I [...]

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A Star Hung On My Soul Sky

February 2, 2010

I’m in the car on the way to the doctor. I feel catatonic…is it possible I’m really on my way to do what I am on my way to do?
Husband asks a question, I think I answer, but he asks again. I attempt to answer, again.
I can’t speak. Can’t blink.
All parts of this reality, this [...]

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On Dreaming

January 28, 2010

I looked at the calendar today, counting the days. Has it only been three weeks? How is that possible?
Last night was another one.
A dream. One of those.
Those really really good dreams, but the kind that you wake up from feeling so sad. The kind you don’t want to wake up from, because they are [...]

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Our Walk

January 26, 2010

The crunch under boots, whining about the sun in their eyes, left over rain water running down the street, it escapes to the drains.
We are on a walk.
Living out in the sticks means a “walk” is more of a hike through this low country, and an outing that requires water and an extra diaper shoved [...]

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A Life Altered

January 20, 2010

I sit on the porch, watching the blue sky — it is much more blue than ever before. I can’t be mistaken, can I? This really is the bluest ever. Those clouds over there, the white puffy way that they appear, grow and mold, and dissipate into the next as they race across the sky. [...]

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Knit In Her Mother’s Womb

January 18, 2010

Quietly we walk across the sand, packed down by the tide, now low. The immense fear I had in the car ride over seems to instantly, supernaturally disappear as I take each step. All I can hear now is the surf. I watch the sun, feel the wind and know I’m surrounded by the love [...]