Category: christianity
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The Cost
This is a sonnet based on Luke 14:26-30, 33 which reads, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear…
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Hard to Bear
A good friend shared this quote from Elisabeth Elliot’s devotional, A Lamp Unto My Feet. “Someone who is suffering as a result of his own foolishness or failure may read these words. These griefs are hard indeed to bear, for we feel we might easily have avoided them. We have…
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Who for Love
This is a re-working of a previous sonnet based on Mark 10:17-22 which reads, And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 And Jesus said to him,…
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The Narrow Door III: Levi’s Table
This the third in a series of sonnets reflecting on the Parable of the Narrow Door from Luke 13:22-30. In this sonnet, I am imagining the table at which the Master’s guests recline and the sorts of tables they’ve left behind to sit at that table. One such table is…
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Someday
I have wedding on the brain as our eldest is getting married this weekend. In this poem, I imagine both the experience of my wife and my daughter who may one day be sitting in the seat of her mother and what that may be like for her. One day…
Backward Mutters 