Tag: god of creation

  • Learning to hear birdsong

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    It was a summer of contrasts, fearful imaginings and new beginnings. I met a man.  A real man.  My tumultuous and never should have happened marriage was dispersing into an empty painful divorce. We couldn’t be amicable as we never had been. My goal now was to finish the nurse training I never should have… Read more

  • My brother’s suicide

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    Perhaps because there is no goodbye it was the hardest.  Worse still anyone who has experienced this tragedy knows you piece together your own goodbye with what ifs, regrets, disbelief. And for a long time all this shapes the narrative backwards.  You doubt if you ever knew him, the truth, how he was. Every photograph… Read more

  • Ashes to Ashes

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    I have grown to like the humbling of ashes on my forehead. The chance to speak up in silence the charcoal cross carved on my forehead as my blonde hair caresses. And to look around to see who else is saying today ‘ I am God’s child’ And that is the most important thing. I… Read more

  • Forgiveness the best gift

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    Forgiveness unforseen you gave me without a ‘But’ without a price tag without a regular reminder bitter and grudged. ‘It might take me a while to trust’ you said but it didn’t because you knew yourself and you knew me and you wanted our love more than ego. Ego is lonely and unforgiveness an open… Read more

  • A Doctor for the Living 

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      Your expertise I do not doubt Your algorithms, statistics and precise patterning I can only marvel at. Your awards are well deserved  Your world renowned reputation is something I myself spread.   In the cities the Bookmakers concur  and gleam from your accuracy. Your prediction of time, of time left, of how and the how… Read more

  • Twelve Years

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    When 12 years of remission from cancer ends …. Read more

  • Fool Me Once

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    Naked, it feels, in a cafe, at work, or a family gathering. Bargaining with God this can’t be the deal Lord! They think I am a fool They tell me I am a fool Am I a fool? Sacrifice God sure – but why this one?  Why are the beautiful things in my life foolish… Read more