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My Hands and my Head as Well
By: Deborah J. Shore | April 29, 2014
Forefoot, arch, then ball are held steamy in the moist cloth, held with both hands by a woman in Oregon caring for a homeless man, now shaved and fed.
Holy Week Women
By: Hannah Rasmussen | April 22, 2014
At Passover we celebrate | how God used Moses to deliver | Israel from slavery | how his staff kept them from drowning in the Red Sea | We forget | how when Pharaoh ordered a gendercide | the midwives | delivered this Hebrew baby
Madonna Without Child
By: H. Edgar Hix | January 30, 2014
She holds His shoes in her hands. They are worn shoes, but the only clothes not stolen by Romans and priests and elders and everyone else who always wanted a piece of Him. But they cannot have
Mother and A Grave
By: H. Edgar Hix | January 30, 2014
I look at it every now and then. We both held Him. I and a grave share that honor.
Mary Waiting on Easter Morning
By: Ruth Hoppin | October 31, 2013
Like Mary waiting on Easter morning regretting a dream she thought was dead in a world whence God had seemingly fled leaving her weeping, perplexed, forlorn, but daring to ask “Where is the Lord?” and hearing at last the holy word,
Nativity II
By: Ruth Hoppin | October 31, 2013
Behold a child is softly crying who will save a world lost and dying, the wooden trough where he is lain precursor to a cross of pain.
Nativity I
By: Ruth Hoppin | October 31, 2013
As night gives birth to a billion stars when day is gone darkness is ever destined to be the herald of dawn; out of a place where hope is not must hope be born.
Womb Currency
By: Charity Kroeker | June 5, 2013
A womb, the currency of the day. Trade. Hagar’s womb: tilled soil. Gentile, slave, used and thrown away.
The Cradle of Life
By: Jane Beal | April 30, 2013
I am made differently from you. I have something inside of me
Opprobrium
By: Olga Soler | March 5, 2013
Opprobrium (n.): The harsh criticism or public disgrace arising from shameful conduct.