Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. ~ Jim Morrison Carry pain like a radio. Well, not many folks do… carry radios, that is. I trooped through the grocery today, […]
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Whispering Shadows
Secrets, shadows, ghosts of should-haves, wraiths of good intentions haunted, goaded me, embroiled my heart and soul. Destiny led us to these rooms, all my fears and me. Love held and healed me, set me free, relieved me of the fears. […]
Continue reading »What Does Archie Teach Edith?
She learns to do what she agrees promptly encouraged by his disappointment expressed as anger when she slips. She learns to get her worth from inside, independent of his appraisal of her. She learns discretion as to where lines must […]
Continue reading »What God Erases
We make mistakes, but sin requires deliberate trespass against a law set by an authority and held by community. God asks us to repent. Do not intensify what God simply erases. ~ Jo Helen Cox What God erases. Like a […]
Continue reading »Surrender Is a Process
From darkness eclipsing my hope, my dreams leaving me wretched, unable to cope, I found hints of a power, as strange as it seems, who perhaps might stoop to grant me hope. Powerless, mired in loathsome gunk I acted “I’m […]
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