Elegy • This is What Agony Wants
I strain to understand what’s happened since I saw her last week. This is what agony wants: for my own pain to get in the way, for the chance to look away.
I strain to understand what’s happened since I saw her last week. This is what agony wants: for my own pain to get in the way, for the chance to look away.
A long marriage doesn’t make or break one’s character; it merely exposes it. And failure or erosion of the relationship is not inevitable.
This is how the Lord responded. When the pain sings , listen to the melody and find Me there in the low notes, the long wails, staccato beat.
LONGING FOR A HEALTHY LIFE If only I was healthy, LORD, How happy I would be. No more spacing out my activities; Low energy would not hinder me. I’d help my friends and neighbors And do for others all the while. I’d visit people in...