#metoo? She felt that pain where he had been and did not know the words for what he had done. She only knew that she was bleeding, broken and bewildered. Pushed to the margins by a monster, thrust to the edge by an evil beyond words.   Adults spoke words like, horror, hospital, stitching, child… Continue reading #metoo?

The Refugee Camp   I am tormented by the terror, that forced them from home, and the threats which drove them, driven by despair toward a sham haven of horror.   Tent strewn swamps, frightened flotsam of clinging children refused the right to fair, fun, and fear less learning.     Rotting carcasses of teeth… Continue reading A refuge in hell

The edge of the eyes and the rims of compassion left her a shadow hid by her poverty and illness. She gripped her pain her weakness her poverty and his fringe. His freedom to reach her limits knew no bounds restoring her to health and her faithfulness her wealth.

Thank you for looking at this blog. I believe that we are pushing more people to the margins than ever before.  

Mary of Magdala known as Mary Magdalene   They took my name and They carefully dragged it for miles and miles through the mud Of disbelief of how womanhood Can carry Christ’s authority.   They read the words from their point, delivering my fate and depositing me at the gate of a brothel.   Read… Continue reading Mary Magdalene

Lord, Was their pain in your heart as they told you, “Goodbye!” They didn’t want your way nor wrestle, with things you say. Lord, did they hurt you when they walked away? And the women you helped who followed their men, turning their backs on ways that restored dignity again. Lord, did they hurt you… Continue reading Lord, did they hurt you?

The cruel touch.   In my heart I keen and weep, for the child raped, assaulted, interfered with, whose worldview is forever changed and something lost that can never be replaced or wholly healed, wreaks daily pain.   It is like a cancer that steals healthy minds, souls, bodies, sexualities to grow on garnered guilt,… Continue reading In response to the child abuse in football and everywhere.

Hi my name is Mary They said I had seven devils I can tell you what those were There was the devil of oppression, the demon of sexual abuse, the demon of stolen children, the demon of exploitation, the demon of poverty, the demon of domestic violence, and the demon of, ‘Your less than.’ I was… Continue reading Devils and Mary

Have you ever been down a cave deep enough to see stalactites and stalagmites.  I went down one in Derbyshire and they had set up lighting so that we could see them. It was like a fairy grotto and doubly amazing when you see the icicles and columns made at only a centimetre a 100… Continue reading Where is Christmas?

Dinner with Jesus   His cooking pot there was little water little barley and no oil. Would he make it do like the bread and fishes for the thousands? He rises and picks up the water jar, disappears over the hill, to the shore. later returning, brings Peter with a load of fish they caught… Continue reading dinner with Jesus