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Casting Fire
This sonnet is based on Luke 12:49-53 which reads, “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give…
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Fantasy Fatigue
To be honest, I don’t really get that many fantasy football invites anymore because I’m not that good and people know my response. My response hasn’t changed though. So in a much needed turn to the light and not too serious, here’s my response to your invite. Regarding your fantasy…
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Will All His Heart
This sonnet is written in honor of my friend and fellow poet Tonya Stanley who even now is making the last journey which will bring her to her eternal home. The words are a re-imagining of her own poem “With All My Heart” which she self published in her own collection…
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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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