It never leaves, this ache. I can press it down, punch at it like bread dough, pat it into a nice ball, and cover it up. But still, sometimes it spills. I think of Elizabeth, barren in her old age. Heart and arms heavy with the ache of it. As time passed, maybe she […]
God Doesn’t Like Fun
I should be prepping for the class I need to teach. But here’s the episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy and Ricky meet. And then the one where Lucy races the horse. Then the one where the whole gang along with Fred MacMurray hunt for uranium. I hear Grace in the kitchen. She’s laughing […]
If I Should Die
Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take. I remember. I’d pray this little prayer every night in my head in my little bed in the little (I mean little–I stood in it […]
Saturday Snaps: The Praying Mantis
Glimpse the grin, green metal mug at masks the pseudo-saintly bug . . . And faintly whisper, Lord deliver us. From The Praying Mantis by Ogden Nash with photos by The Droid Lifting a prayer for you today, So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love […]
Unanswered Prayer?
Had I in some form learned the future would I have asked for unanswered prayer and would that prayer have gone unanswered? Would the gift of prayer for unanswered prayer have been unanswered prayer because He’s doing something greater than my prayer? I pray to God—my life a prayer— and […]
