The Jesus Gypsy

Category: writing

  • BREATH MY ONLY BOUNDARY

    BREATH MY ONLY BOUNDARY

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    HI Y’ALL! I appreciate all your sweet messages and thanks for checking on me. In answer to the two questions I get asked most: YES I am still writing and YES I am still in seminary. In fact, I have been writing up a storm and am set to graduate in May. And in addition…

  • WAIT

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    a poem about suffering and what it means to W A I T what I wouldn’t give to rise from this window seat of longing and brave my way into the gray and through the gray to part the veil that obscures life from Light drown this sorrow in your river; crystal, to its verdant…

  • How My Fear Became Faith

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    Fear was my father’s favorite game and one I learned to play at four years old. With gleaming green eyes and a wicked sense of humor, my father was a force. His family had always been trouble and trash, but he was equally handsome and charming. My mother met and married him in a whirlwind,…

  • I Owe You an Apology

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    Actually, I owe you two. Shall we begin? (1) Please forgive me for being MIA for the past few several months. As you might remember, I am currently working on getting my master’s and, as it turns out, seminary is very much the opposite of easy. I am loving the courses though and—God willing—will graduate…

  • once upon a time

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    HOWDY STRANGER!!!  Hope you are well. I was thinking about you this morning and deeply missing the good ol’ days when I got to use my words for CREATING and CONNECTING instead of GRADING and GPA-ING. As you might remember, I used to do quite a bit of writing here and even had a few…

  • bigger than the sky

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      “Bigger than the sky, right, Nay-Nay?” my 4-year-old Nephew asked, smiling up at me as we walked to the park. I smiled back and replied, “Yes, Jakey. Bigger than the sky.” I laughed to myself, loving how he remembered that particular term of endearment; how I was always telling him that I loved him…

  • to be continued…

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    Christine
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    I am choosing to believe that you have missed me as much as I have missed you.  It likely isn’t true, but perhaps the best part of being a writer is my ability to create my own reality at any given time. Please let me start by saying that I am so very sorry that I…

  • the when

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    Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Matthew 6:33   As we continue to unpack what it means to be deeply rooted in relationship with God, we are looking closely at the basic principles of Christianity; the Who/What/When/Where/How/Why of faith.  So far, we have…

  • the what

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    For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast… Ephesians 2:8-9 As we explore being rooted in relationship with God, we have been working through the basic beliefs of Christianity; the Who/What/When/Where/How/Why of…

  • the who

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    Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”   John 14:6 In the last post, I stated that we must be rooted in the truth of who God is through a personal relationship with him in order to grow spiritually and flourish. That…