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The Last Gift
The last Christmas gift arrived Saturday while I stood on my porch in the snow and while I shook out the left-over Christmas dust from the doormats and rugs. Just as I was about to head into the house to finish my weekend chores, the FedEx truck pulled into the driveway. Since our walkway is… Read more
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Epiphany – Christmas Afterthoughts
(I wrote these words on Christmas morning and wasn’t sure if I should post them. For many the Christmas season comes to end with Epiphany. I pray, however, that the wonder of the incarnation be with us throughout the year to come.) I look beyond my computer screen out of my office window into an… Read more
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My Prayer for You in the New Year
I pray you find God’s open doorsFind gates to pastures greenPursue the blessings which are yoursBe calmed by quiet streams But when the road on which you’re sentIs dark and cold the wayI pray there be a single friendWhen doubt-winds make you sway I pray you leave the doors locked tightWhich closed by God’s own… Read more
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Pregnant with the World to Come
Anticipation fills my heartLonging for the world to comeA placeWhere birds no longer chasedBy ice and cold.Where children no more die and strayAnd mothers get to holdTheir babes – caress their smiling face. My soul it thirstsFor coming ways when newsOf sickness and of shortened daysNot even are in memories past.When instead the soulLooks straight… Read more
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The Suit
A Short Story (Fiction – Kind Of) John stood in the cold bedroom staring into the dresser mirror and stroked a strand of white hair from his face. His skin sagged around his high cheekbones and neck. The white shirt and black tie made him look even more pale than he already was. The… Read more
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The Worship of the Luna Moth
Sometimes a story makes me emotional before I ever understand it completely, before I have dug for its meaning and before I had time to meditate on it to see what God might have to say through it. This one is one of those stories. I have not completely comprehended what it all means and… Read more
Heidi Viars 