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Words

The sunrise brings the day-wordsIn a basket of brightly burning flame.Possibilities all jumbled inside,and, if we are not careful, we will drawThem out upside-backwards--sharp side outwards.Words...

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Baby

Baby you are there in your bed. Quiet but frustrated. "I no sleepy,"You insisted, until, arms folded in somnolent prayer, and you slept, unsleepily.Outside child-grown babies run and shout, knowing...

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A snippet from a project

Rocks, smooth and brilliant nestle, decades old, in the elbows and knees of the river. Water, cold and so clear it is invisible until a water skate walks, impossibly, on its surface, slides by. Low and...

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Central UMC Devotionals

This week I am supplying the devotionals for Central UMC, Asheville. Thanks for reading!

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Central UMC Devotionals

Here is another devotional from the daily emailed devotional from Central UMC.

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Day Three CUMC Devotionals

A third offering from my five part series.What do we know of baptism?A child, brought to the waters to be marked, a man drawn by thirst so deep that his bones crack with it, a woman burning with...

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Day Four CUMC Devotionals

Day Four

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Day Five CUMC Devotionals

Last one for this week.

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Favorite Words

They agree with the Sermon, but they have less enthusiasm for the offertory, i.e., in expending energy or making sacrifices in the line of their convictions. --J. Arthur ThomsonIsn't that just the truth!

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Lay your burdens down

You know what?I dried a load of clothes in the ELECTRIC dryer today.It was perfectly sunny and breezy outside where my clothes line is. Perfect line drying weather. Like God woke up this morning and...

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Lemon Chicken Orzo

I used to love to cook. I used to use leafy things with fruity things. I used to make herbed syrups.Then I had kids.A sweet lady at my church, fishing for conversational fodder with my four year old...

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Lovey

I brought a potato into my bed tonight because I wanted to write about it. I wanted to write about the crusted soil and the mica flecks and the warm sun on the necks of my children as we harvested it....

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Bouncy house

We had a church wide picnic tonight. It was fun. There was bluegrass music, barbecue and a bouncy house.  My children lived through the day for that bouncy house. They knew it was coming and every hour...

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A New Year

The white light of a full moon is rising, all film noir, behind my window blinds. I have no idea what moon it is. January's moon. I will probably Google it.I did.It's the wolf moon. The first full moon...

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A very messy life...

My life is pretty messy. I have decided that while my Twitter feed will alert me to all volcanic activity all over the world (thank you @VolcanoAlert) and, helpfully, make sure I never run short of...

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Why do we like things?

There are things we like.We.The larger collective. Things that last. Classics.  Things that Last. Books you want people to notice you are reading. But why?Why do we like things?Why this one and not...

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Thunderstruck

How in brunch did I not know that a portmanteau was a mash up of two words and not a suitcase?In light of this I have decided that I can no longer in good faith call myself a burgeoning word-smith and...

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Suspense

Ball game tied.  Two minutes left. Rusty haired child standing elbows on knees, peeking through a veil of suspense. His game was this morning. He knows the rush of success and the hollowness of...

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Super bowl commercials and "Vaxxing"

For those of you unable to access the internet, social media, and therefore not reading this, nothing...To the rest of you, I WANNA GO BACK TO FUNNY SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS.Also, I was in charge of the...

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Offended

A Christian is totally fearless, constantly cheerful and always in trouble.My first instinct is to disagree. I am not sure why. It seems like a decent statement, but I want it to be wrong. Probably...

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Never Mind

I am a child of the 80’s. The nineteen eighties, to be clear. America’s grunge music movement came of age about the same time I did. Bands like Weezer, Jane’s Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, and Nirvana...

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Tattooed

He had sleeve tattoos on both arms. It felt like a dozen stories crowded together between shoulder and wrist. There was a orange and goldenrod koi swimming down one forearm and a starlight sky...

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This post is a race

I have a story. It's a great story. But I am racing the baby nap.So.Part 1If you have never had children, try to imagine tying a gallon and a half of milk around your neck, eliminating most of your...

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The time I failed a test

When I went to college at Furman University (Go, Paladins!), I approached my class selection like a starving polar bear at a zoo buffet. I wanted to take everything. Once, while wandering down the hall...

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New Blog

I am blogging again (whew...the universe is so relieved), but I have a new address. If you are interested in reading more about me (and who wouldn't), click through here.I have three blogs housed at...

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