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Hi-ho, Hi-ho.

By aly hawkins ⋅ November 6, 2006 ⋅ 22 comments

It’s back to work I go…tomorrow. I’ve been off for three months to try and get a handle on a pesky clinical depression/anxiety disorder, and now it’s time to get my life back.
I’m both nervous and excited. Excited, because I like what I do (book editing) and mostly like the people I work with, and [...]

Sermon Prep, part 3

By michael lee ⋅ July 30, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Prayer. I could use some. 2 hours to liftoff.

On Weather

By michael lee ⋅ July 23, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

Kyrie Yeshua
This heat, and hail, and flood, and fire
Reminds us
We are tenuous and precarious beasts
Held in your hand
Sustained by your hand
And though we are removed
From famine, and pestilence, and fires
We are not so far removed
Sustain us by your hand
For we are tenuous and precarious beings

Ben Miller in Rio

By michael lee ⋅ June 18, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

Several months ago, I got an email from Ben Miller, who is a part of the community called Word Made Flesh in Rio De Janeiro. He lives and ministers among the poor in that country. He was writing to ask if they could use the song “Let Your Justice Roll” as the music behind a [...]

Prayer of the Inexplicably Discontent

By aly hawkins ⋅ May 16, 2006 ⋅ 9 comments

God of the here and coming kingdom:
Why is “Why?” only ever answered
in retrospect?
After the fact, I often realize the cosmic Reason for the thing but it
would be so nice to know
when the thing is still
the thing.
Right now, for instance:
I’d like very much to know why life is just a little funky.
It doesn’t suck or anything [...]

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