Author: Scott Dalgarno
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These Straits
I say I want, and wonder what I mean. As if to speak my longing could summon what I seek. Foolish man; over-fond; much too frank. As if to say I love you were money in the bank. Presumption’s my secret sin; I say I want you and wonder where you’ve been. As if you wade, like me…
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Parable of the Absent Mother
“There was a man who had two sons . . “ Luke 15:11 Her not being there was in everything. It was in their dinners together and in their sitting alone. It was in each of their bed times and in their getting up again. The younger boy was rudderless; the older one angry, always…
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Prodigals
He came to himself Luke 15:17 Jesus understood how a boy can take leave of himself – the soul drifting, propelled darkly along a descending string of poor choices but there can also be a coming home, as abrupt as Dorothy clicking her heals. Like David the king, who heard the words, “You are the…