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Posted on July 1, 2021June 30, 2021

Grief: a poetic reflection

falling fast in a dark shaftwith no handholds or bottom below cast out on rough seas alonestruggling to stay above the waves walking ghostly among the corporeal worldor like the only fleshly body in a landscape of phantoms nauseous stomach like something within needs to be expelledyet empty inside with a sucking black hole fixed …

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Posted on April 19, 2018May 9, 2018

Thursdays with Murray [Humility, week 3]

Over the next weeks, I am interacting with some of the writings of Andrew Murray. Murray was a South African pastor and missionary during the 19th and early 20th centuries. I am spending time first with his short book Humility. In chapter 3, Murray looks in a more focused way at the humility evident in Jesus' …

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