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Origami relationship
If I fold the map just right, you are close enough to hold at arm’s length.
Posted in poetry
Tagged boundaries, emigration, family, haiku, long distance relationships
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Seven years
Seven times seven years married, seven years past; a rose remembers.
Biblical widows and Granny Lyle
Granny Lyle was widowed in 1957. For as long as I knew her, she lived alone in a house not her own; she had never lived in her own home, going from her parents into service with the local doctor … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon preparation
Tagged 1Kings 17:17-24, Daily Office, family, grandmothers, lectionary, Luke 18:1-8, Luke 7:11-17, Widows, Year C Proper 5
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Religious rituals and summer Sunday attendance
Two days after my mother died, at half past five in the morning, I heard a strange noise outside my bedroom window, the window of the spare bedroom in my parent’s house. It was a rasping, grinding, rolling, grunting, sighing … Continue reading
Posted in sermon
Tagged 1 Kings 18:20-39, centurion, church attendance, community, Elijah, family, funeral, healing, Hebrews 10:25, Jesus, Luke 7:1-10, religious ritual, ritual, summer
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Tornadoes and sympathy
When I attended prenatal classes nearly twenty years ago, they warned us that watching the news would never be the same again after giving birth; that we would weep more, suffer more, seeing each vulnerable child in the light of … Continue reading
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Tagged family, grief, loss, oklahoma, storm, sympathy, tornado
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Mother’s Day
I’ll make a deal with you. It is this: that for every single rose you give to a mother walking through your Sunday morning doorway, you say a prayer for the child whose parent left him alone and hungry in … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, adoption, celebration, church, family, liturgy, loss, miscarriage, Mother's Day, motherhood, prayer, pregnancy
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Breathing room
I have expanded since she left, as though she wedged me tight, her elbow in my side, that space whence God had made my other self; restored my second lung inflates; her voice still susurrates as I exhale.
Posted in poetry
Tagged bereavement, family, family systems, poetry, self-expression
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Holy Saturday and the Harrowing of Hell
This is what I wrote for my Good Friday reflection in the collection put together by the Rev. Gayle Catinella on behalf of several members of clergy in the Diocese of Ohio: O death, I will be thy plagues; O … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlife, death, family, Good Friday, grief, Harrowing of Hell, Holy Saturday, Jesus, Psalm 88
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