Tag: fiction
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Joseph’s Worry
It had taken the voice of an angelTo believe the words of anotherThat our boy who is not my ownWas truly a gift from God And now I’m expected to raiseThe son of our LORDTo teach him how to be a man of honorWhen he will always be more than I How can I teach…
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Mary’s Pain
Gabriel had spoken so gently that nightSo assured in his messageIn the giftIn the promise An angel, visiting meIt wasn’t properFor everyone knew of the horrid NephilimWhich came from such meetings in the night But he wasn’t here to take advantageHe was here to deliver a messageWhich only fueled the worryBurning deep within my soul…
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Quote of the Month – March 2025
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do. Brene Brown When I decided to pick a quote for each month, I didn’t actually intend to then write a post about it, but life happens, and things change. I picked this quote originally as a flagship quote…
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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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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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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…
J.Rhett Lively 