Tag Archives: Prayer

Ashes ashes

Posted on March 6, 2019 by landl30

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down. But not yet and not now nor scattered on the wind, ’till, yet commingled with all whom we loved and have been loved by, we rise.

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11.3.2017 nightmares come of fears and terrors places, faces that know no mercy that smile at evil and play no face to honor fears of a world not open to the One such that waking is to … Continue reading →

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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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prayer – April 24

Posted on April 30, 2017 by landl30

————— 4.24.2017 face on the pillow cheeks marked by the oxygen line. her eyes are down barely open and it scares the hell out of me what happened to the little girl, precious diamond child, at age forty … Continue reading →

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our father – April 12

Posted on April 13, 2017 by landl30

4.12.2017 I held his hand and we said the our father the strength of his grip defying the frailty holding on tight to claim the faith that joins us as he awaits an end. ———————–

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sabbath comes over me – April 8

Posted on April 10, 2017 by landl30

4.8.2017 sabbath comes over me like a dream state sitting in the service eyes closed, soul at ease like a soldier at ease resting but alert open to what might come. my breathing softens. why this dream state. … 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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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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she slid under the water – February 19

Posted on February 20, 2017 by landl30

2.19.2017 she slid under the water, one last hit bringing a blink into which the family bath disappeared along with the smile and pain and any semblance within this life that a friend or mom or dad or whomever … Continue reading →

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