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Our Father*
The model we have for Our Father is most often the wall that keeps us separated. For too long we have seen Our Father as my father. Until it is dropped – this human stain this confined belonging this absolute understanding – the wall will stand sturdy and tall. Only when we open to the…
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Diabolical
It is diabolical – this system of gold and silver and bronze the world has instilled for physical perfection… this mastering level of degrees the world has built for the academically superior… this absolute purity of white silk vestments of worship the world has draped on the shoulders of a regular man. I no longer…
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The Other Side
Yesterday morning, the sun was brighter the air – clearer the sky more blue … On the other side of a challenging season, I finally felt my lungs expand completely and fully with the freshness and life of this new air shared only on the other side. Was this a taste of Heaven? A teeny,…
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Hollow Prayers
Empty Hollow Soundless Bland What to do when prayer exposes nothing… …just keep praying…
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Caterpillar or Maggot?
Instead of a grand POP that provides space for immediate relief, my balloon has been slowly leaking stale air for endless days drawn-out months tedious years… This season of seemingly incessant waiting makes me wonder – just how much hot air can one ego transmit? *With thanks to the Gospel of Thomas, Logion 81
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Prayer of Awareness and Doubt
Dear God: I know that it doesn’t matter what I pray for because I know You are in charge. I know I don’t sway You away from Your will by asking for things, or solutions to problems, or future outcomes that I think will make me happy. You have always provided for my needs, even…
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Vocation Hobo
Those people who know what they were born to be – they fascinate me. Even as children, they had an identity so clear – a teacher, a doctor, a mom, a mechanic, a preacher, a marine, a librarian. How did they always know with such clarity, while I sat perplexed by my existence and wondering…
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Prayer for Letting Go and Listening
Dear God: I know I am powerless to accomplish anything good without You. I know my joy will never come from that which I expect for my future, which has monopolized my mind for my entire life. And I know I cannot strike down that monopoly by myself, especially because without it, I don’t know…
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Awakening
There is great satisfaction in knowing my trust in God within the dissatisfaction of the course of my life rains torrents of joy in the depths of hell – my faith, even when nearly non-existent grows the brightest of daisies in the darkest corners of Satan’s graveyard. The most dreadful of devils, the most horridly…
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The Road to Freedom*
Pulling over to the side of the road I could feel the gravel of the shoulder spitting dirt and pebbles and dust all around – like Pigpen from the Charlie Brown cartoons. My eyes rolled in my skull remembering the twenty dollars spent washing my car just yesterday. What a waste! Yet, I knew rest…
Jessica L. Morris
The seeking is everything…
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