It's important to note that my mother is not the same person she was when I was small. Thanks to Christ, she changed. In later years she worked to make up for her lack of mothering in earlier years. And I am grateful.
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To Mom on Her BirthdayI sit here gazing upon
a stack of plastic drawers that hold all manner of strange things-- nail files, dental floss, makeup, and bottles of travel-size toiletries. And I think of your generosity that saw what was needed during an awful move and went out and bought the organizing drawers to quell the impending chaos when there was no one else who could or would. And I thank God for your many grace-filled gifts as unnoticed and ubiquitous as Kmart storage bins that have ordered a messy life always on the move so that I could travel well and arrive well-groomed. © 2010 Tess Lockhart. All rights reserved. |
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God Poetry
- A Preacher's Prayer
- Advent
- Advent Watch
- Ordinary Advent Time
- First Christmas Post Husband Mortem
- Christmas Bread
- Ding Dong Dung
- Christmas Credo
- Incarnation Narrative
- Starlings in Epiphany Snow
- Evensong in Bleak Midwinter
- Imposition of Ashes
- Lenten Ruth
- Langston Hughes on Maundy Thursday
- Maundy Thursday's Scattering
- Good Friday Tenebrae
- Gardening Holy Saturday
- Mourning, Holy Saturday
- A Little Hilaritas What If
- Milton on Easter Monday
- Pentecost Invitation
- For All the Saints
- Winter Solstice
- Evening Prayer for the Beloved
- Incarnation's Repair
- The News Was Not Good
- Just Jump Already
- Job's Modern Lament
- Uncle!
- Worship
- St. Valentine
- Response to a Dr.'s Rhetorical Question
- A Prayer of Praise
- Renunciation and Adherence
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Marriage Poetry
- A River of Words
- Beloved Baptism
- Anniversary Gift
- Aching Pain
- Disappointment for Nothing
- A Lament of Recognition
- A Marital Parable Revealed
- Kissing Death
- Grief
- Extinguished
- Not Exactly Thecla
- Rectify
- Love Beyond Terror
- St. Valentine
- Divorce
- Marital Haiku
- A Mockingbird
- All for Love
- Love's Transubstantiation
- Enough of Love's Ideal Poems
- My Lie
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Healing Poetry
- A Child Abuse Victim
- At Grandma's Funeral
- Confronting Nothing
- For Want of a Ritual
- Gardening Widow's Weeds
- Ghost Whisperer Grief Obsession
- Grief Drought
- Swimming with Grief's Fear
- Five Years Post Mortem
- Middle-Aged Dating
- Fire and Water
- Canoe Wrecked
- Desire Beyond Reason
- A Survivor's Haiku
- Baptismal Renewal
- Of Children, Pigs, and Priests
- Sometimes
- The Trickiness of Doors
- Tenured Otherwise
- Turtle Soup
- Quotidian Poetry