Love
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whatever works
I still don’t know if any hearts were opened.
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morning solitaire
I’m making friends both left and right; why feeling so alone this morn?
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committed
committing to commitment in various versions is differently difficult and beautifully baffling
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Perplexing Theology Stress Disorder
I MUST BE DOING THIS WRONG.
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the greatest of these…
They say love lasts forever.
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family ties
some days I lose my mind and they lose theirs, but mostly – we lose our hearts.
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the poet’s irony
I try to write of love ~ but words ne’er flow
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a book of many pages
Oh, that’s sounding better – God’s deeds and not mine / perhaps I am still off the hook / but who fought the “physical” part – got in line? / you’ve got to remember to read the whole book.
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miscommunicado
crossed wires start fires
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validated
Today I live and stand in my own story.
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all in the same storm?
convenient, I say, They in their boat, I in mine. Let’s just blame the storm.
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I Need Permission
I wasn’t as brave as you were to face it head on.
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As Ben Dances on the Edge of Heresy. Again.
Notice any gaps there?
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Blessings and Breakage – Thoughts on Christmas and 2017
Blessings and breakage live perilously close to one another. At times, blessings and breakage intertwine, to the point where you often can’t tell one from the other, if, in fact, they are not already one and the same.
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Isn’t it Ironic? Getting beneath the surface of the RFRA debate
Some of you who know me have heard my rant on Alanis Morisette’s 1996 hit, “Ironic”, where she sings about a lot of things that are NOT ironic. Rain on your wedding day? Not ironic – kind of a bummer. A black fly in your chardonnay? Gross, but not ironic. Good advice that you just…
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The power of paying attention and gaining perspective
Today I will let others’ words speak: From this morning’s episode of “On Being“, with Krista Tippett: The Summer Day Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is…
defying atrophy 