… humble thanks to Bloom Book Club for the invite to guest blog for the bookclub gathering for chapter six of Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God: “When you fall in Love” — this quiet community warmly welcomes the Bloom Community ! Girl, if you say that boy’s name one more time, I’m opening...
We lay ours aside, the words that normally fill our mouths, and sit around the table, slipping our forks under squash from our dirt, meat from our barns, and we offer each other words, living out words of the Psalmist. “God raised the sun today!” Hope grins, lighting. “I don’t hurt anywhere.” Levi looks up...
It’s after the service. I’ve talked to the Petersen’s in the foyer, miscellany like the progress of practices for the Easter Cantata, if there’s anything I can do to help serve the meal to students from the Bible college coming this weekend to perform, how school is going for their eight children. We’ve laughed and...
Ugly beautiful: Mismatched socksTub ringBoys’ unmade bedCrow caw in dead Of winter, black on whiteCDs laying naked withNubbied pencils on floorBlisters, more On each hand from rowing milesPine wood planks undertumultuous tummies Beautiful: New snowFirst lightLong hugs at dawnLaundry hanging on drying racks over registersgiggles shaking sheetshand-cupped whispers ticklingearboy gear:elastics, legos, duct tape, plans to...
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