Category: poetry
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Day 308: Feast (A Poem Based on Matthew 22:1-14)
11 “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness.…
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Day 028: Carry Me Home: A Poem for Ed (Genesis 47:27-31)
Originally Published 2023 Late last night, I got the call that a beloved saint in my church had his homegoing. He had been fighting cancer for years, and last summer he told me that there weren’t any more treatments to try, and he was going to let the cancer run its course. I’ve visited with…
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Day 320: Pentecost: A Poem
2 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested[a] on each one of them.…
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Ten Lepers Left (a poem)
Ten lepers were healed, but only one came back. This poem imagines what happened to the other nine—how gratitude can fade into comfort, pride, or distraction—and ends with the question Jesus still asks every heart: Which one are you?