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moreSo God Made a Mother:
When the Giving Tree is Really The Giving Mother *UpdatedOn Monday, May 06 th, 2013So, sure, there was this talk of The Giving Tree – but there wasn’t one of us who didn’t know all along it was you, The Giving Mother. You who leaned over a stove and stirred and let spices fall like leaves and you ladled and we slurped and it would be remembered when we ...
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moreThe 1 Thing Radical Really Definitely Has to Look Like — Right Where We Are
On Friday, March 15 th, 2013No one just straight up tells you that the things you’ve seen — become what you see. That you’ll close your eyes a thousand nights from now and it will all be real again — where you were and what they wore, that one look, that one moment, that one frame. That you’ll see the world through what you’ve seen of the world and there’s no goi...
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moreHow Women Can Get Radical For Their Sisters
On Tuesday, February 26 th, 2013When you pick up the garbage in the streets of Minoterie, there’s the sun burning up the back of your bare white neck. And crumpled tin cans and sucked-dry water bags and an AIM toothpaste box and empty rum bottles. And barefoot boys kicking a ball, and boys begging you for just one swallow water, and boys lacing their fingers around your sweaty hand. You can bend down li...
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moreHow to Make a Miracle Happen
On Friday, February 22 nd, 2013They still do happen, miracles, a bit like a flash in the sky. Coming up the backside of th...
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moreThe 1 Thing You Really Have to Know About Your Family
On Thursday, February 21 st, 2013Over here today …. It’s good to be rocked and changed with you all… Related: Of Women & Sisters & Family & How You Really Speak Lent Why It’s Okay to Cry When Lent and Valentines Collide: 40 Days of ThanksLoving
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moreOf Women & Sisters & Family & How You Really Speak Lent
On Wednesday, February 20 th, 2013So Shalom has this bag made by 3 Cords in Haiti that she carries her shoes and Bible in it to Wednesday night Kids Club, and sometimes a hen or a pig, depending on how the day slants and careens. That’s the bag the kid keeps hanging on the first hook inside the bac...
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moreWhy It’s Okay to Cry
On Monday, February 18 th, 2013Apparently if you try to carry a vintage sewing machine through an airport security in your carry-on, you can get yourself patted won. Even if you have all your white hair wrapped up in a bun and you are wearing worn Reeboks with your skirt. Mama just took it like a grandma, thanked TSA, grabbed her bag with said sewing machine and marshalled us like a battalion: “LetR...
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more10 Real Ways You Could Really Be the Change in the World
On Thursday, July 19 th, 2012In the days after, my throat about seals off. On the edge of the bed in the dark before morning, all I can do is is sit at the edge of the world and close my eyes, wince through every hard searing. It hurts and it doesn’t matter because there’s no getting around it — you do have to figure a way out to swallow the world down. ...
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moreThe 1 Thing You Really have to Know About Your Family
On Tuesday, July 17 th, 2012Iam not going to lie. When your kin comes knocking on your own back door — come to ask how that trip to Haiti went — how can you look them in the eye and lie? How can you lie still when babies are drowning in a sea of poverty? How can you not scream? I tell Mama that I think I’m angry. Mama sits down. And I p...
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moreweekends are for the best worship
On Saturday, July 14 th, 2012Coming to you live from our drive through Port Au Prince this morning…. {Please consider clicking off music slider just below top nav bar to hear the best kind of worship — right in the midst. RSS readers can view video here… } and what song’s on repeat in my heart Caleb and sweet Kechnaider who needs a sponsor {b: June 25, 2008)R...
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moreWhen You are Looking For Hope
On Friday, July 13 th, 2012‘If there are hopeless places — Haiti is almost a hopeless place.” That’s what the guy in jeans and the stamped up passport had told us before we went anyways. On a street to the south, a man bent and twisted by struggle and sun, he slugs a shovel load of rubble high up into a dump truck. Mounds of charcoal, flip flops, rice, garbage heave ...
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moreHow the American Dream becomes Christmas in July
On Thursday, July 12 th, 2012The boy made a wreath out of wood. And all one December, as the snow fell and the carols played, we sat around a farm table and remembered how a mother swayed heavy with child and we waited for Christ. The boy made more wreaths out of wood. He sent them around the whole world. And more families, they lit candles around the w...
