Leah was sidelined from her congressional aspirations when her mother bargained like a politician herself and offered paid tuition in exchange for her attending a year’s worth of Bible College. Leah complied, ended up completing that three year course, and eventually settled for enacting and enforcing laws upon her three children. Her husband, Bonnard, is the President of this union and sometimes of the same party line. They live in an ancient home in a small Maryland town where George Washington probably slept or picked his wooden teeth or something.
We’re all quite ordinary, confined to our skin, defined by our limitations. We rehearse our boundaries. We know how tall the walls of our shortcomings are. We’ve counted the financial, emotional, and occupational bricks in
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I greeted a gentleman about my age coming into the store to scout out furniture for another individual. He led me around asking prices on a variety of items and made several phone calls describing
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I laugh, I rejoice, I weep with wonder when I comprehend the accessibility of the gospel during the Christmas season. In the cacophony of carols there it is, set to a tune everyone finds familiar
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A tree works to grow, its roots reaching down low in this world that you made The fight’s hidden and slow, the fruit finally shows in its outstretched shade And I watch so amazed as
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I’m thrilled to imagine that while I am unaware God is observant. I can more readily grasp this reality remembering the scenario played out on a southern beach. Clifton was six. He walked the wide
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The very darkness of the night causes me to crave the light, and the light with its severity makes me long for the shade. Frail creature am I. Not made for darkness, unfit for light.
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I feel old, but in a wizened way when I meet the woman who shows up my first day of work proclaiming loudly that she’s drunk, then later mentions her two children, one starting kindergarten
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Getting locked up isn’t all that easy, despite what you may have heard. First, there must be criminal activity. Once clearing that hurdle, there’s the matter of getting caught. Someone must discover your behavior, and–this
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The only female patron in a newly opened restaurant, I found myself seated close to a table of military men in uniform. It seems the eatery had a grand opening special, slow service a la mode. I
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The year I was six all my siblings moved out of the house except Kevin. That meant I had my thirteen-year-old brother all to myself. He was my personal clown with his Donald Duck voice
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