Thanksgiving prayer during a Poet’s Fallow Time For the curves and fascinations of language, the nuances and crevices where meaningblooms brilliant with life at the nourishing spark of creation. for the displacement of soilby hope stretching toward light;for the tentative shootsof maybe, perhaps; for the quiet that cradles words in the kindness of time as they rest their syllables,…
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Durable Hope
Durable Hope I heard a preacher yesterdaywho called the faithfulto offer durable hope; durablehope in these times of fear,times of armouring up, so many uncertainties, timesof signs and questionable portents.In this wild and tremulous now,the faithful are calledto offer durable hopeas we all make our way together,onward and once again, home. I kept feeling the echo…
Advent I, 2024
Advent I, 2024 I will go—this much I know.The journey, enticing; theway, uncertain; questionsremaining yetno longer oppressing;The destination,I do not doubt,revealed along the way.I will go—not I myself,alone with my wanderingsof mind and imagination,but with others, with wonder,sharing stories, seeking light. Kimberly M. King
Consider the Lilies 