• 25 Jan 2024
  Fellowship - Christian Wiman

  Tragedy and Christianity are incommensurable,
  he declared, which we’d have chalked to bluster
  had he not, within the month, held a son
  hot from the womb but cold to his kiss,
  and over a coffin compact as a toolbox wept
  in the wrecked unreachable way that most resist,
  and that all of us, where we are most ourselves,
  turn away from.
                                Bonded and islanded 
  by the silence, we waited there,
  desperate, with our own pains, to believe,
  desperate, with our own pains, not to.
  

• 14 Jan 2024
  Whatever Happens This Year /

  I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.
  In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

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