October Remission
/It was early October.
I'd hoped it might be different—
cancer returned,
cursed a blessing…
By Andy Cooper
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Background Shadows
/…musical career began with John Mellencamp. Over the years, his guitar talent was merged with musicians including John Prine, Steve Earle, Bonnie Raitt, Rosanne Cash, Carl Perkins, James McMurtry, Mitch Ryder, Lou Reed, and John…
By Don Gardiner
Read MoreA Family Gathering
/The close-knit McClanahan clan became an American family in 1890, with Lady Liberty as witness. Thirty-one immigrants, from bodachs to the bairn—old men to the babies, in the parlance of their new language—eventually …
By CraigE
Read MoreCherish Time Together
/Gather, converse, bring…
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It is delightful to gather with those we love.
It may be a spur of the moment chat.
It could be a long-awaited family …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreAll That I Live For
/The world we live …
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He’s the beauty of a starlit evening,
And the mystery of the sea.
He’s the music of a newborn…
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreIn The Savior's Face
/God's people have always …
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Righteousness through the covenant of law was earned by being sinless. While righteousness by the covenant of grace is a simple gift of…
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreSister Sarah
/I'll always remember the …
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Gathered by her side like a lost lamb
Sister Sarha took me in her arms
hugged the holy ghost from my ribcage
where indigestion felt like…
By Sterling Warner
Read MoreAutumn Looms
/A quatrain poem
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I shall not mourn, though autumn looms
Harbinger of winter’s glooms
But rather recall spring’s …
By Mike Turner
Read MoreBack to the Moon Again
/Wan pewter orb
Hangs in ebony skies
I’m back to the Moon again
Mountains, craters…
By Mike Turner
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