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Carol of the Mourning Dove – OUT NOW!
Thrilled to announce that Carol of the Mourning Dove has officially launched! You can get your paperback on Amazon – 75 personal poems that tell a story of hope while I held onto my Lord with an often weak but staunch white-knuckle grasp. Hanging by an unbreakable thread, that’s how this book feels. The Lord God is good indeed! I am excited,… Continue reading
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For the Christian Fighting for Their Very Life (spoiler: you go free)
I want youalone,dismayed. I want youfrozen intime. I want yourlimbsunmovingand both lungsbreathless,reeling. I want youpale withterror. I want youdoubting,spiraling. I want youpreservedin shame. I want darknessechoingin your mind. I want youinsane. But I scream out for the LORD and He hears my voice. And I remember there is nothing that can separate me from Him.… Continue reading
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Lake Day – a poem for this mama’s broken heart
I might break beneathgood things,my son running inwith grasshoppers caughtin Grandpa’s field;he goes to kindergartenin only a week. but later I might break beneathsad thingsmy world closing inon the living floor,reality hits harder in the opensaying those words aloud;feels like a death, feels like a funeral.I still don’t cry the tears that try,that should have… Continue reading
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Communion – a poem for mothers trying to worship
baby fingers narrowly keptfromCommunion juice,rowdy children hushed,a mother’s look,sit still,she barely gets a prayerin edgewise,thank you, Lord, thankyou, Lord.and in this quiet, chaoticpew,this mother with her children,this broken upworshipher Lord is trulyglorified,and likely quite delightedby the narrowly,rowdy,barely edgewise. -S.V.F., Communion ❤ I have been wanting to write about how a mother of little children participates… Continue reading
