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The tears I hold
When my boys began reaching high school one by one, I found myself carrying emotions in a different way. It may have been that I knew our time with them at home was closing and things were changing. I would cry at their performances (not because they did bad, but because I was just moved by what I watched them…
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The prophetic and the poetic
The prophetic in the Old Testament was called the poetic by OT scholar Walter Brueggemann. I’ve grown to love that comparison over the years. I was reminded of it again reading this paragraph from a recent article: