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Silenced

I thought it ridiculousA man of my ageA woman of hersTo expect a child after so many years barren Even knowing the Angel was sentFrom God’s side to proclaim the newsMy human nature had overtakenThe faith I claimed each day to have I had been allowedThrough the mercy of hand and penTo tell my wife…
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Suburban Gardening

I grew up on a farm, which is sad because I spent so much time trying to get away from that farm that I didn’t bother to learn much about gardening. So now that I’m living in the Suburbs of a medium sized city with an HOA to deal with, I’m having to not only…
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Worthy

I don’t know why I was chosenBy the carpenter that dayTo carry his wife and unborn childOn their journey home I wasn’t anything specialIf anything I was the runt of the coffleOften the last to feedAlways the last to be wanted But there seemed to be something specialAbout the child still formingAs beings from the…
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Gardening

If there is one thing that I wish I would have paid more attention to growing up, and there are MANY things on this list, it would be the lessons on gardening and self-sufficiency. My Mammaw had a beautiful garden until the day she died, my Papaw had a large garden for as long as…
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Shelter

I began my life the day Joseph was bornPlanted by his fatherIn honor of his child’s birthGrowing together through the sands of time We spent so many years togetherAs he shared his dreamsLearned his tradeAnd came to understand his fate Father to the Father’s childHusband to the blessed womanBuilder of homesArtist of ancient craft I…

