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It didn’t matter where I went. It didn’t matter who I was with. The heavy robe of rejection and depression weighed me down, clutched me in jaws to strong to break free of. I was invited to a College and Careers Retreat with a friend. I didn’t want to go, but I didn’t want to miss it either. I just felt so backwards, unsociable, unwanted. I carried a burden of guilt and grief no one was able to take away. Sometimes the big pipe organ at church wooed me out of it a little with the song, “Great is… Continue

Ellen

I was lying in bed asleep. I had the humidifier on since I had been struggling with a bad cold. Over the noise of the humidifier, all of the sudden I was awakened to the sound of trumpets. The call was distinctive and repetitive. I jerked the cord of the humidifier out thinking I had lost my mind! The same call sounded out – do doo doo doooooo dooooooo doo…over and over for what seemed like an eternity, but was probably only just a minute or less. I tried to tell Dan, my husband, about th… Continue

Betwixt by Joan Ellsworth Boggs

I want to move on. At least I think I do. I want to just get on with my life. I think. I’m not exactly sure what that means. God has to be in it. If I seek to remain in the past I believe I would wither and die a slow death. I can’t stay there and yet I don’t know how to move forward. The desire to press forward is strong, but is it strong enough to overcome this perplexing ravine that I see ahead? Is what I want the same as what God wants? If I press onward what… Continue

"What of the bones that lay silent in the earth?"
He asked, "Do you believe?"
I answer, "Yes, I believe!"
Of long lost ones, bones long since dry, I hear Him declare - "They shall come to life when I give them breath. You will see! Loved ones lost from years ago - restored! You will see."
The clatter of bones, the witness is clear; The bodies assembling before your eyes!
Tendons muscle, then the skin, all but the Spirit, the breath of God.
Can you imagine?
Row upon row, like men lost in battle,… Continue