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Month: November 2017

rivers

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017 l m anderson1 Comment

Thanksgiving is undoubtedly my favorite holiday, and my soul seems to yearn year-long for that sleepy, euphoric melody of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  The weeks that sweep past us after the Thanksgiving turkey is cooked, carved, and cut into--for me, at least--is a time of deep reflection.  Reflection upon the trees all around me [...]

Posted in ponderingsTagged gratitude, holidays, poetry, writing

to the lonely

November 9, 2017 l m andersonLeave a comment

I am lonely. It feels almost wrong somehow to confess this.  I wrestle with my feelings of loneliness in the wake of people telling me "You have Jesus!  How could you be lonely?" I pray over my loneliness.  I do not run from it.  I no longer set it upon a shelf and stare at [...]

Posted in prayerTagged christianity, depression, loneliness, religion, writing

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