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when God dies, all over again

by Emily Wierenga | Feb 26, 2012 | baby, death, funeral, God, heaven, love, mother

i forget, for a moment, how angry i am at God, when i hold my new nephew, whose brown feet conduct an invisible orchestra.babies give God a face, and when you look at them, it’s so easy to believe. but when they die, at 18 months, it’s so easy to stop...

The Gyspy King (feature post from this week’s imperfect link-up)

by Emily Wierenga | Feb 3, 2012 | God, Gypsy, heaven, Jesus, King

My children,Your mama loves this man named Jesus, the same name you’ll hear outside. And yet, like with a lot of things, names mean different things to different people. It doesn’t necessarily make one right, or one wrong, just different I guess. So when mama says she...
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