From lonely seed you burst, unleashed in Spring. You pushed and weaved, until freed from the dirt. The sun that kissed your leaves foreshadowing When Son would embrace you with […]
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The Eternal Wedgie: On the Angst of the Christian Life
I know you’ve been there, standing in front of a group of people, delivering an important presentation, all eyes fixed on your gesturing hands, when it suddenly begins […]
Continue reading »The Receptivity of Kotex (and Other New Year Musings)
Disclaimer: This may be the strangest post I have ever written. I can only excuse myself by reiterating the complexity of the woman’s brain, full of tireless, synaptic tangles […]
Continue reading »An Advent Reflection
“…for nothing will be impossible for God.” Time seemed to slow into a lazy saunter. The angel hovered wispily, waiting, searching for a sign. The virgin breathed deeply, […]
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“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether […]
Continue reading »The Feminine Genius of Wonder Woman
We all know the first line of Pride and Prejudice… “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be […]
Continue reading »The Horcrux of Singleness
There aren’t many things that take me by surprise. I may have raised an eyebrow when Trump was elected, pursed my lips when Brexit was announced, and widened my eyes […]
Continue reading »Annunciation
So panged with longing, weighed beneath the curse, That Eve inflicted by her greedy grasp, A virgin kneels, anticipation stirred, As she now ponders what has come to pass. Salvation […]
Continue reading »The Permeability of Fences: A glance at the refugee crisis
When I was a child I wanted to be Spiderman. I remember standing in front of the cinder block wall in my backyard, reaching forward with a shaky hand, […]
Continue reading »The Unwitting of the Modern Mind
There is a fatal urge in the psyche of mankind that compels us to pull at threads. We see a stray end for which we deem there must exist a […]
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