Category: 2024
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Special August Post
August is a five week month, so we will be having a special post for the final week! Both Alice and I will be posting a poem on the topic of patience. One poem in the form of an Ode and the other an Elegy. We hope that you are…
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Casting the Rod
This dialogue explores what patience can realistically look like. I think oftentimes we view patience as mostly internal and do not give much thought to the external. I like to think of patience as a total body experience where you are strengthened against the strain of negative emotions. With it…
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I Can Only Turn the Page
There’s a story here.Written in harsh wordsAnd scratched out lines.My pencil breaks writingAbout the momentsI let myself down.Turn the pageTurn the pageFasterI begged.No response.I wasn’t born impatientWas I?Try as I mightI couldn’t lift a grain of dustMy soul felt that weak.I wanted a fantasyWhere I could turn to any pageAnd…
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String Of Patience
The following is a short dialogue between two friends in a craft store. They discuss patience metaphorically using a ball of yarn. Within this dialogue I do not give any specific details on who they are or why they are there. I want you the reader to create these details…
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Haste
In all our haste towards the end,We forget to breathe.An ill-fated fait acompli.The hot, bright anger we hold,Will not shake its hold on us.Blinding us from a better way.Though wise men say to wait,Until the storm passes.It never does.Yet, the Holy Spirit who clothes us in grace,Allows patience to bloom.Calming…
Streams of Comfort 