Monthly Archive: September 2016

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Songs of Lament

Things are sometimes not how they are supposed to be. We look around and know it in our bones. There’s a lament that rises from the depth of our beings as we watch the...

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No words

Sometimes there are no words. No words to describe what’s going on. No words to describe what I’m thinking and feeling. No words for this hurt, this indescribable gaping hole inside of me.  ...

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Spent

SPENT adjective having been used and unable to be used again. synonyms: used up, consumed, exhausted, finished, depleted, drained, emptied; having no power or energy left. synonyms: exhausted, tired out, weary, worn out, dog-tired,...

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Raging against God

The city of Jerusalem has been destroyed. The people have been dragged off into slavery. This poet is wandering among the rubble, trying to make sense of it all. And in his bewilderment, he...

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Just being there

A couple of days after my mum died very suddenly, I was walking along Colchester High Street. I must have been going to our church for some reason, I don’t remember why. And I...

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The walk of shame

Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away. Her filthiness clung to her skirts;...