Forsaken
Consider, O God, those pounding at the door for your justice, for your steadfast love, for your deliverance. Will you not answer? We are fainting on your front porch, weary with grief. Can you not...
View ArticleKicking the Can
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah while he was still confined in the court of the guard: In this place that is waste, there shall once more be heard the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness....
View ArticleRoom for Rage
Herod sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken...
View ArticleIn the Garden
How often I’ve thought it would come to this: a battle, a stand-off with swords, a line in the sand between powers; me against you my ally turned into my foe because you were never an ally I trusted;...
View ArticleWrestling
Let me go, for the long night has run its course. Let me go, and release me into the dawning day. Let me go, for now I have wrestled long enough. Let me go, and do not keep me for your own blessing....
View ArticleSpace for Grief
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years, and Sarah died at Kiriath-arba. Abraham said to the Hittites, “I am a stranger residing among you; give me property for a price so that I may bury my dead....
View ArticleThe Sandwich Generation
These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. …...
View ArticleEye for Eye, God for God
Blessed are the unwavering, the resolute, for theirs is the unstretched heart. Blessed are the bold, the undaunted, for theirs is the unbended knee. Blessed are the unapologetic, the loyal, for theirs...
View ArticleWitnesses to Love
13,000. That’s how many Palestinian children have been killed in Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Hamas, as estimated by UNICEF this spring. 1,195,070. That’s how many deaths in the U.S. have...
View ArticleOutcry
The One Who Is & Shall Be said to Abraham: “I am sending angels to the place of Violent Fire, to assess the veracity of the people’s cries against it. If their cries are true, I will destroy it.”...
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