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Awakening in Ashes

September 14, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

This morning I count myself among the countless human beings that awake in ashes day-after-day-after-day, and continue in their unseen warzone. They awake to find themselves seemingly drafted and re-drafted day-after-day-after-day in some internal warzone that is well-grounded in external circumstances – and to some extent in the actions of other people. People watch from afar, yet only a few are able to bring us water like “good old grinnin’, gruntin’ Gunga Din…” Not that they wouldn’t bring us water...

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What Does it Mean to ‘Never Forget’

September 11, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Like most citizens of the United States, I remember where I was and what I was doing when I got news that we were under attack on September 11, 2001. They say history is written by the victors (or seeming victors) and there’s so much truth in this. Narratives and story lines. While collectively we Americans (and many who unite the Bible with the flag) speak to others of forgiving people and just letting go, at the same time on...

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An Arsenal of Butterfly Wings

September 9, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Be Thou My Vision. The early Church responding to adversities. The Butterfly Effect. What do all three of these things have in common? Yesterday, I was listening to Be Thou My Vision. I thought about some things. I thought about spiritual battles. I wrestled with navigating proper response, not simply reaction. I thought about Jesus’ call to non-violence…I thought about His silences…and I thought about His speaking. I thought about the book of Ecclesiastes…a time to be silent and a...

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While My Enemies Watch (Feeding Sheep During Darkness)

August 30, 2022
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Personal Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I continue to be spiritually horrified by the nature and roots of what I discern as nothing short of demonically-fueled spiritual personal assaults to my own self and faith. The most recent flaming arrow (surely prompted by Satan himself) arrived in my email inbox at 4:10 pm this afternoon. Menacing words not only today but in increasing form, format and progression involve mockery of my faith, my personal journey, slander of my character and so much more. These weaponized words...

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What Does That Even Mean?

August 22, 2022
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My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

What does it mean to walk in the truth? I am sure each of us might answer that differently. Rather than my stating what I believe it means to walk in the truth, I think thoughts about fruits that cannot but be understood as anything other than the antithesis of walking in the truth. I think of times I have not walked in the truth. I think of God’s mercy and gentle fetching back of me and those who wander...

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Finding Ourselves in the Story: Lamentations Style Poetry

August 16, 2022
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My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Tonight as I reflect upon the various aspects of my difficult day, after difficult yesterday and the difficult day before and the day before and the days before those days feel difficult and I anticipate tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after the day after tomorrow and all the days that will follow those will likely be…difficult…I think of three particular things. The first thing I think on is how diamonds are formed under a slow, constant...

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The Words Which Were Actually Spoken…

August 14, 2022
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Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

On any given day, I have a lot of words in my mind of all sorts. On any given day, I take in a lot of words from external sources. On any given day, I output a lot of words, more or less…in various ways, for better or worse. During the past year or more, I seem to be taking more note of the full moon and various related things that seem to come my way during this time. While...

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If My Master Had a Blog, Would He Disable Comments?

August 4, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Absolutely not. I think of the life of Jesus, Job, Stephen, Paul…Old Testament figures such as Joseph, Moses and others… Sometimes the responses to the main story tell the story better than the story itself, in some sense… Of course, we are not Jesus, who though He was publicly slandered with numerous lies and twistings about what He did or did not say or do, by so many, in the moment of His ordeal, opened not His mouth. The ultimate...

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I Want This More Than Wanting to Hold My Grandbabies

August 3, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

This piece is really pretty simple. More than wanting to hold my grandbabies, I want to see the sweet, grown, sensitive, loving and kind beautiful face of my son, Jonathan, holding his children....

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The Work of Becoming a Woman

August 3, 2022
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

We often hear phrases like, “Be a man.” But I don’t think we as often hear, “Be a woman.” Or especially…keep becoming a man…or keep becoming a woman. This carries with it the idea of ever-evolving, transforming and growing into all that it means to be a man or to be a woman. And I find this very relatable. When we hear something like, “Be a man about this…or that…,” we seem to mostly understand what that means or implies....

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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