Category: christianity
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God’s Office
There is an anonymous saying that comes up in Twelve Step meetings that goes like this, “God’s office is at the end of your rope.” I like that a lot. Nothing like good, clear directions to find something. Here’s a roundel based on that saying. At the end of your…
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The Narrow Door II: A New Door
This is the second in a series of sonnets based on the Parable of the Narrow Door from Luke 13:22-30 which reads, 22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be…
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The Old Becomes New
This is the third in a series of sonnets based on John’s first letter to the churches. This one is based on 1John 2:7-14 though it is particularly based on verses 7-8 to read: 7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had…
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The Narrow Door I
I will be working on a project to write a series of sonnets based on this passage from Luke 13:22-30. Our human sensibilities oftentimes find these passages which speak to the exclusion of the Kingdom of God highly unsavory. And in our age in which the individual is the “sovereign…
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Light
This is a sonnet based on 1John 1:5-10 which reads This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we…
Backward Mutters 