Why Don’t They Read?
For those of us in the ministry of words, this can be a little frustrating.
San Andres Mixtepec
Zapotec Hands My brothers hands, my sisters hands, hands pressing mine in greeting. Small, rough, corn husk dry, warm and welcome hands. Early morning cooking fire, smoke cured, tortilla making hands. Trembling, aged hands that gather wood and lead the burro and lift in praise to God …beloved hands.
Single-Minded
November/Learning For if you are busily occupied with mind and hand in all these things, you will have no leisure for vain, wandering, or wicked thoughts; but, as though ever at a new beginning, you will gather for yourself those fruits which you shall enjoy forever, and you will deserve the name of a single-minded […]
Voices Together: Psalm 38:13-16
Psalm 38:13-16 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth. I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes. But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, […]
For Failing to Stand
For Failing to Stand–Standing is a way of showing deference, as if to give up one’s seat to the arriving person.