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And Then ‘Imagination’ Jesus Said to Me, “Make Ready Your Dancing Shoes, Grandmom!”

July 27, 2022
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Feral Thoughts, Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was painting this afternoon, finally, for a good block of time. I’ve been really distracted by so much, recently. As I listened to music, painted and thought about various things, I was wondering to myself…how, if or when might I even hear or know when my youngest son’s twins are born – my grandbabies – since he has decided to have no contact with me. I got to thinking about a story a dear older friend told me. More...

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I Wish I Had Never Conceived You

July 13, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was standing in my mother’s kitchen, in my childhood home. I was in the same kitchen where my father had stood over the sink six years earlier on a Friday evening in early May, arguing with my mother, while having a heart attack. I was trying to get past my mother and out the back door, and she stood on the step or two between the kitchen and the back door landing. She was holding the wrought-iron railing and...

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Masterpiece of Malevolence Part I (Job 1:1-22)

April 21, 2022
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Thoughts on the Book of Job, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I really seem to be stuck in the book of Job, for some reason. Things in my life – especially in my own internal world – seem to be taking me back to this story for analysis. It is unwieldy – some of the thoughts and observations that cross my mind. I feel like expressing back what I am taking in…and I am not certain how to do this! At least for now, since I gave a general and lengthy...

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Keep Being You

April 19, 2022
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Book, Media and Movie Commentaries, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There’s a line from a movie that has been used in a number of ways and memes in pop culture: You keep using that word – I’m not even sure you know what it means! Awhile back on social media a friend made a comment: Keep being you. So, what does it mean to be me?And what does it mean to keep being me? What does it mean to be you? What does it mean to keep being you? I suppose...

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Their Life Wasn’t Supposed to be This Way

March 16, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Writings

Back in October I wrote a piece called MY LIFE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY . Today, thoughts led me to write this companion piece. I often notice people in public and while we do not want to judge by outward appearances, I cannot help but notice things about people that might indicate that they’ve lived a hard life. And, that perhaps their life did not turn out the way they may have hoped for, and imagined, when younger....

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“I Said Tomorrow, the Lord Said Today”

December 6, 2021
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Book, Media and Movie Commentaries

I get excited when Spotify introduces me to a new musical artist that I fall in love with! This past weekend, it was Mean Mary. She has quite a voice and talent! Great guitar and banjo, and amazingly creative YouTube videos. And it appears she writes her own songs. By listening to more of her works, I found a number of very spiritual and Christian-based lyrics. That’s an even bigger plus – a musical artist that is spiritual and Christian...

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Slipping the Bonds of Earth

November 4, 2021
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Beautiful Song and Poetry Lyrics, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

Commentary and analysis of the song "We Can Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens.

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Timeless Distilled Theology

October 27, 2021
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Personal Writings

Today in the late afternoon after being indoors focusing on mentally draining tasks and absorbed in backburner melancholies of sorts, I just had to get outside for my daily dose of that which is good for my soul. With so many outdoor tasks calling to me in the autumn as preparations for winter hasten, I found myself gravitating toward going into my small back pasture area to continue picking up black walnuts and shagbark hickories. I suppose my older son’s...

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Jesus, Our Mediator

September 18, 2021
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Personal Writings

Our relationship with Jesus is the most personal and precious and open and vulnerable relationship we can imagine and cultivate. In my view, it is one where there are no rules. No right or wrong way to talk to Him and with Him.Because we can trust that the gentlest of hands – His hands – will sift through the wheat and the chaff of our expressions – keeping and especially acting upon what He knows to be good, right and...

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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Two-Hundred Dollars

February 17, 2020
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There are times in our lives when we find ourselves in a prison of sorts. Times of deep grief, losses, upheavals and disruptions of all kinds and sometimes on every front. It is no longer business as usual. We find ourselves on the proverbial roller coaster. Metaphorically we are forced to not pass ‘GO’ and not collect our metaphorical ‘$200’ – those things which normally allow us to experience every twenty-four hour cycle of this journey called life with the peaceful...

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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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