Tag Archives: faith

I Read Job to Be Reminded

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Susan L Daniels

It is not God I should accuse but us: We were not there when You laid the foundation when You set the cornerstone. We are flawed with our cracked clay feet, unfit for keeping. Fallen. I read Job to understand awe: We … Continue reading →

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100 kA over 80 seconds

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Susan L Daniels

I have no patience for saints or ministering angels Instead let my life the work and power of it be testimony enough fast and deadly as lightning in a June garden

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sugar in my coffee

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Christ’s toenails are on E-Bay if you crave salvation but don’t test for authenticity of blood and time just taste that sweet sweet America style punch to the stomach, braided through what was cane and cow, reinventing an awake faith, standing ground and never … Continue reading →

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Exhibit A

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

We are proof, laddered templates climbing not to heaven but realization I can understand but never define this holy stretching under all science we can sequence the random: my son’s sky eyes my daughter’s chin the scythe of her smile … Continue reading →

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on finding a fragment of a cross in Turkey

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Show me wood and I will say there were 10,000 crosses but my belief is not bound up in trees I am old as shale layered under my feet and young as air what I know hums in molecules I … Continue reading →

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Let’s suspend disbelief

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Let’s suspend disbelief, hang it like a moon-shaped charm on a bracelet, ballast for a wrist ’70s style; silver poodles, stretched glass cats, beaded birthstones and initials linked and rattling unlikely music. ***we are trying our hands at Twitter poetry today at dVerse.

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Some Other Jesus

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

The Jesus I know fed 10,000 hungry, touched lepers, blessed tax collectors and turned tables in the temple upside-down, because they were heavy with coins. The Jesus I know let a woman sit at his feet and learn, instead of … Continue reading →

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