Tag Archives: God

a godly conversation – October 8

Posted on October 9, 2017 by landl30

[a godly conversation] I cannot speak to you as I would or rather could should my mouth is wood when I open it to say my heart and roots drop out of things that never quite touch what it was … Continue reading →

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why did you take my daddy – August 8

Posted on August 12, 2017 by landl30

8.6.2017 [why did you take my daddy] why did you take my daddy away. at age two he could now talk and ask. six months earlier I had to tell him and his family that dad would never be coming … Continue reading →

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I ran from my dream – May 30

Posted on May 30, 2017 by landl30

5.30.2017 I ran from my dream frightened and denying the images of my mortality body withering skinnier each day the muscles outlined and my lover aware, that I thought I would have more time, twenty more plenty enough … Continue reading →

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direct apprehension

Posted on April 8, 2017 by landl30

4.7.2017 hearing God’s voice directly. asking and waiting for a word. a sense attribute more lost than found for secular us. ————

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mid-lent – March 24

Posted on March 25, 2017 by landl30

3.24.2017 mid-lent, when ice starts melting water flows and my heart begins to open to movings other than my own. mid-lent, mid life, mid storm mid desert places of peace begin to emerge out of places I wasn’t looking. … Continue reading →

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a visit with Mike – March 11

Posted on March 13, 2017 by landl30

3.11.2017 out for the day with the prodigal son, damaged by birth, by life, by all the bad chances and changes that can harm and yet, he smiles and we try, because God made him and somewhere in … Continue reading →

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presence – March 9

Posted on March 11, 2017 by landl30

3.9.2017 You were present today ahead, behind, beneath my entire day though I was blind mostly not seeing nor aware except in fleeting glances that You were here in every step. ————-

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