Category: Art
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Dream: Hospital Escape
“Ms. Clairborne, please remain seated. Do not leave your room. All hospital personnel have been alerted to your presence. Do not make this harder on yourself than necessary.” Liz ignored the voice from speaker on the desk and finished getting dressed. She stepped over the male orderly who was sleeping…
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Dream: The Agony of Hope
“We have forgotten — or perhaps never really understood — what it means to trust that God is in control. Politics matters. But we have forgotten that good political leaders were supposed to be our gift to the world. Now we think they are something the world has to give us, so we…
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Round the Bend and Back Again
Round the Bend is a Nevil Shute novel about Tom, a British airplane mechanic who moves to the Middle East after his wartime marriage ends in disaster. In our online book club, I had a long but inconclusive discussion with my father about why Tom did that. This vignette is…
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Dream: Techie Mayor CEO
I feel like a failure It feels like my fault Because how can He succeed If nobody helps Him? And aren’t I responsible If I’m the only one Who knows He can be trusted?
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The Tunnel of Codependency
We say we are trying to help them But really we… I… I am mirroring Their pain and anxiety And it is easier To try to fix them Than deal with those feelings Within myself
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Dream: Construction Boundaries
MIT is being renovated. I am leading a tour group. Like I used to do. We come from the East. The standalone buildings on that side Are most functional. But the large complex in the heart of campus The Infinite Corridor Is completely surrounded in yellow tape. In fact The…
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Dream: Chocolate Shop Fail
I am in a cavernous store, the size of COSTCO. It is basically a tourist trap. Actually part of a series. In a resort. In the mountains. This one is a candy store. Each day they take us to a different one. I wasn’t interested so I wandered off.
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Prayer: The Right of Intercession
When there is nothing constructive leftTo learn, think through, or repentI must do the work of an intercessorAnd trust God for what happens next
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Dream: Yellow Candy Grace
My friend and I are hard-luck kids In Sunday School He’s dying of cancer. The teachers try to take an offering Of the bright yellow candy we both like But rarely get
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Dream: Checking-Out
The Takeaway The fear of God should “pressure” me To prioritize treating my family With the fruits of the spirit Even over accomplishing What I thought He told me to do.
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Dream: Love Story
There is a story within the story One story is a fairy tale. Sort of like Beauty and the Beast.
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Dream: Lost In Transit
We are passengers on a lost flight Or maybe we knew someone who was Or maybe we are just pretending.
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Poem: Love in the Shadow
It is easy to love when you walk in the light When everything’s clear, and the future is bright And all can agree on what’s wrong and what’s right
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Dream: Terror Hoops
Arena I am in an Arena. At least in the building. I’m backstage, on the edge of the Court. Watching a man go out to be arrested. A former basketball player. He was going to blow the place up. I helped turn him in. I’m hoping he forgives me. That…
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Redeeming Aphrodite: Girls Knight Out (Part 11)
Continued from Part 10 Prologue I stand in the Box of Hades Holding the hand of Eve. While the Multitude tears Adam to shreds. Over and over and over again. Time seems to stop. Or perhaps speed up to infinity. We are frozen somewhere between horror and awe. By the…
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Redeeming Aphrodite: Christmas Adam (Part 10)
Continued from Part 9 Prologue I stare at the Multitude gathered before Eve, here in Hades’ Box at the End of the World. Waiting to tear us limb from limb. And worse. Ernie: Father, forgive me. I didn’t know what I was doing. I am not able to drink this…
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Redeeming Aphrodite: All Hallows’ Eve (Part 9)
Continued from Part 8 Prologue Father and I have been taken prisoner by female guards. I have no idea what is going on. I wonder if we were betrayed by Hades, when he opened the Box in his Office. Then I see Adam. He no longer looks like a truant…
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Redeeming Aphrodite: Seeking Eve (Part 8)
Continued from Part 7 Prologue As expected, the Office of Hades is locked. I use the Master Key to open it. Adam and I enter. The snappily dressed figure at the desk grins. He looks surprisingly relaxed. Maybe he did take that vacation after all.
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