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Recognizing Light and Darkness

Recognizing Light and Darkness

“I’ll go ahead of you, clearing and paving the road.I’ll break down bronze city gates, smash padlocks, kick down barred entrances.I’ll lead you to buried treasures, secret caches of valuables—Confirmations that it is, in fact, I, God, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.” Isaiah 45: 2-3 A trip this week out of the heat of the…

To Be Your Mother

You arrived into my life with both gentleness and fervor. Tenderness and tenacity. Each of you. So different but yet so the same. Two born of my flesh and one born of my heart. It simply matters not. You have opened my eyes. Changed me. Remade me. With your crinkly eyes filled with laughter. And…