darkness
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Beyond the Shadows
Scripture Focus: “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.” — Isaiah 9:2 There is a difference between walking through a dark place and living in one. If the electricity goes out for twenty minutes,…
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Blue September
At first, there was only darkness. Concrete pressed against concrete,dust thickened every breath,and somewhere beyond the weight of it allcame sounds too distant to name. He called out. Then again. Nothing. Until somewhere above hima thread of light appearedbetween broken steel and stone. And beyond it— blue. September blue. The same impossible bluethat had stretched…
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Still Mine
(For my beloved son, David—no distance, no darkness, and no mistakehas ever changed the love that carries you.) There is a space beside methat does not belong to silence—it belongs to you. The world keeps movingas if nothing has been misplaced. But something has. A piece of my breathingwalks this earthoutside my reach. My hands…
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Against the Artist’s Hand
(Thinking about the Bondi Beach Victims tonight…) There are nights when cruelty chooses a doorwayand calls it courage.When hatred sharpens itself into actionand dares to name the wound it makes as purpose.This is one of those nights—where the air itself feels bruised,and silence learns a new weight. Violence always arrives claiming power,but it carries the…
