Poetry
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Nine Years of Love, Life, and the Northern Lights
On the Eve of our 9th wedding anniversary I found myself taking photos around our house of the home we’ve built together. I don’t have many words this year, but the photos tell the story in their own powerful way. While I’ve lacked words to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary I wrote a poem a… Continue reading
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Laughing in the Cold
March blusters in with buttercups below winter-bare trees. And perhaps, we don’t much admire this month which is neither warm nor cold, beautiful or ugly, simply because it unravels much like the way our heart feels most the time. We are both winter and spring, joyful and grieving, growing old and becoming young again. A… Continue reading
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The Quiet Part (out loud)
When I was about 6 weeks pregnant with my son I remember quietly admitting to my sister-in-law that I knew how to trust God with pain, but I didn’t know how to trust Him with joy. I had long years in the crushing season of infertility and still there was life which rose from the… Continue reading
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Swan Song of a Scarecrow
In a whirlwind of happiness following a long season of infertility, Sierra finds herself fearing the future, sudden loss, and figuratively holding her breath for things to fall apart. It is in these years of pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood where she deeply learns to fully embrace God’s good gifts, and to run headlong into… Continue reading
Sierra V. Fedorko 