2 Those Who Mourn
Praying Through Depression (poem)

Praying Through Depression (poem)

Praying Through Depression by J. Marshall Jenkins   My Lord God, when the cares of the world distract me from the gift of breath, and my worries insist they are as real as the moment’s pain, when regrets come home to crowd and clamor my memory, and the future...

Soft Morning Light (Poem)

Soft Morning Light (Poem)

  Soft Morning Light   for Wanda J. Marshall Jenkins No matter how strident the march of darkness as my good angels scatter and deny knowing my name, your soft morning light prevails after predawn darkness, sometimes playfully, sometimes ever so quietly. It is...

Mourner, Reclaim Christmas

Mourner, Reclaim Christmas

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted (Matthew 5:4). Healing processes are not pretty until the end.  For example, a cut on the hand takes you through pain, bleeding, scabbing, and scarring before it clears up.  Grief, too, goes through awkward or...