Archive > June 2010

The Terrible Plague by Joy, dd9

I Joy, dd9, wrote this piece for a writing assignment early this year.  I thought she had given some nifty descriptions of the situation, writing from a first person’s point of view. Well, enjoy! ” The Terrible Plague of London I wasn’t going to celebrate my birthday in 1665. My mind rang with the same [...]

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Folk Tale – by R S Thomas

Prayers like gravel flung  at the sky’s window, hoping to attract the loved one’s attention. But without visible plaits to let down for the believer to climb up, to what purpose open that casement? I would have refrained long since But that peering once Through my locked fingers I thought that I detected the movement [...]

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Book review: NINE JEWELS by Lydia K. Kristanto

Sometime ago, I learnt to distinguish between devotional times and devotional living. The writer who made this clear to me was Sally Clarkson, homeschooling  mother , writer and women’s groups’ speaker. She wrote that we are to ever live before God- being conscious of His presence as we go about our daily activities of working, [...]

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