one day someone had to invent god there had to be that single moment when some person looked up to the sky and wondered where the sun and the moon and all the trees and he, himself came from when lightning strikes and thunder roars when winds blow so hard it bends the trees the … Continue reading »
Tag Archives: God
Prayer by Rebecca Gaffron
working lines unseen by regular heroes, cutting patterns like blood offerings to wash away some sin you don’t believe in but still claim and suffer for. the sound, lost between shudder and song, as you take flight. snowbound, yet with wings that work, an exercise in movement as prayer. and there is grace in your … Continue reading »
The Tension and Terror of Being by Allison Grayhurst
I see no brave and better day than what we own. I see no more precious challenge than that which is given us – to chose decisively between goodness and malice, to long for God and long criminals from their slumber. The heaviest pity, the most sheepish betrayal, the refuge of ugly ambition, all murder … Continue reading »
Living in Sin by Gale Acuff
One day I’ll see Miss Hooker in Heaven when I’m dead. She’s my Sunday School teacher and says that all men must die, women too, and that they’ll never know exactly when and that if they knew when then they’d be afraid and couldn’t live out living lives they have. She’ll go to Heaven, and … Continue reading »
