A Kara Heart I want a Kara heart soil soft and sown with kindness wild like butterfly weed fragrant as a lilac in spring. Word Count: 21 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. Kara’s blog: A Mundane Faithfulness. In the stillness, Sandy Love is kind. ~ 1 Corinthinans 13:4 Note: Kara […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 22
Impossible Dream We think we can save the light, dial it into our hands at will, reset it for our own purposes. Impossible dream. Word Count: 22 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. History of Daylight Savings Time Oh, how sweet the light of day, And […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 23
March My kitchen’s hemmed by the sun. Morning and evening the angles of light reveal every speck, expose every flaw, magnify my shortcomings. March. Word Count: 23 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. It’s the time of year when we Michiganders go from sinking knee-deep […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 24
Tripping to Toledo I tripped to Toledo and carried home another harp to weave a tapestry of trying to make music with the strings of my heart. Word Count: 24 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. Related: When it Doesn’t Feel Like Home, and it’s Time […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 25 (Still Saturday)
But too often I find myself fragmented; I am continually asking God for things (in the plural), “All these things I ask of the Lord.” ~Luci Shaw, Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life Word Count: 25 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. In the stillness, Sandy […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 26
Love One Another There’s a din in the air, a lion’s roar, the sound of Christians eating each other for breakfast. Love one another, he said. Here kitty, kitty. Word Count: 26 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. In the stillness, Sandy For the entire law […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 27
Frisbee Snow The yard is a china plate that shatters as I step on it. Shards skitter across its surface, slide into the trunk of a tree. Frisbee snow. Word Count: 27 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. In the stillness (and coldness, Sandy When blizzards roar out of the north […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 28
Bunny in a Bush Bella the Bad stands guard on the sill while psychodogs patrol on the bound Sound the alarm! A bunny in a bush is worth two on the ground. Word count: 28 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. God guards you from every evil, he guards […]
One Less Word For Lent 2015 – 29
A Hint of Things I can know you as a hint of things, like a mist that streams across the field, a slow, sacred dance in dawn’s sanctuary. Give me vision to see. Word Count: 29 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here. In the stillness, Sandy A first line […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 30
Ode to a Towla Worm (to the tune of “Our God is a Worm”) You have done it… climbed a tree, attached yourself, delivered your children, excreted a scarlet string to hold them, sacrificed your life. It left a crimson stain. It is finished. Word Count: 30 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled […]
