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19. 32
I’d like to start this poem by stating what I don’t intend to do this year: I won’t buy any more trading cards, unless I am really compelled I will not delegate my dating life to a phone application, unless someone convinces me I will not doubt my calling or despair if I don’t get…
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18. Dissent
Love used to be stories: Knights win princesses Cowboys untie damsels Savages capture concubines Exchanges of property and wealth the brokerage of Catherine of Braganza Love was a trade When it was romanticized sometimes it started in the schoolyard or the fields sweethearts and youthful innocence held them like glue sticks The working class and…
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Watching, Waiting, Woes: Habakkuk 2
It might be hard to believe or receive, but one could make the case that prayer is the most effective gift given to humanity to bring about change. Some would rather attribute change to talent, charisma, and strong work ethic, but more often than not, it is the prayers of those in right standing with…
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A Safe Place for Anger: Habakkuk 1
How long, Lord, must I call for help and you do not listen or cry out to you about violence and you do not save? Why do you force me to look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Oppression and violence are right in front of me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates, This…
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17. Anesthesia
As you drift off, you will finally lose that weight, you’ve been telling yourself you should do something about. you will forget the trauma and the triumph the lull you feel is a silent lullaby rocking you once, into slumber Your breathing corpse maintains its complexion you will stay beautiful in your absence you might…
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16. Bells
*Ding-Dong* waited at the door to be greeted by your father have you back by ten and treat you like his daughter made sure to open up and help you into the passenger moved the umbrella, meant to keep us from the water *Ring-Ring* our food was up after we waited by the window like…
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Young Camel Knees
It was Eugene Peterson, who in the introduction to his Message translation of the book of James that taught me the nickname for the apostle James, the brother of Jesus, was “Old Camel Knees.” The nickname, which I think cute, was given to him because the amount of time he spent in prayer. The theory…
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My Friend Joseph
I have often thought that I have the best friends anyone can ask for. The quality and quantity of genuine friendships I have could keep a person full. And I have often desired to write a blog post about each one of my friends in a way that would highlight and honor them. Today, it…
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15. Pictures
most of the time there’s too much perspective for just one photograph like the contour of your ridge that leads to a bridge that knows of the perils of love it’s worth it to be overwhelmed by the decision to wade in waves and surging waters to rest on your shore, sure of catching the…
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14 Footing
Sometimes when hiking under the weight of a pack or under my own, while walking along a ridge I slip when the incline is steep enough Once, as a child, I was running and skid on leaves on the edge of a trail and almost tumbled down a hill On a date, in early February…
The Long Rebuild
The Reconstructed 