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Cleanse this temple too

February 24, 2021 by Grace Kelley

How many tables
have you toppled this year?
How many images did we imagine
were worthy of you,
but we see now are rotted,
rusted with all the rest
of our earthly treasures?Read more Cleanse this temple too
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Abandoned Places

February 11, 2021 by Grace Kelley

Maybe the reason these places pull me in is because I’m so hesitant to ever believe that there’s nothing left worth saving. Maybe it’s because I don’t want anyone to think that about me. Perhaps I feel a kinship to these lonesome and broken down places; perhaps its the Imago Dei in me longing to bring order and dominion to every lost and abandoned place. Perhaps it’s because I know my heart can’t take any more abandonment myself. Read more Abandoned Places
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The Anvil

February 3, 2021 by Grace Kelley

Loss is like
an anvil
sitting silent
on my chest.
The only noise comes
when I try
to breathe.Read more The Anvil
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Where I’ve been

January 28, 2021 by Grace Kelley

This year God began to teach me how to breathe on my own; with the breath that he breathes into my lungs. Breath that has allowed this year to be a year of incredible creativity; a year of pushing the boundaries of who I thought I was, and what I thought I was meant to do. Read more Where I’ve been
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How Grief leads the way to Deeper Peace and Greater Clarity

August 19, 2020 by Grace Kelley

God’s Kingdom is here, and it is also coming. Every broken thing will be restored. The dead in Christ are only the seeds waiting for the proper time to grow into a new and fuller life. Our King is here; and He is coming. Read more How Grief leads the way to Deeper Peace and Greater Clarity
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His hand beneath my chin

May 3, 2020 by Grace Kelley

It dawned on me that this is how God parents us; he uses his tools to make good and beautiful things, but the tools are often loud and scary sounding. But he never chides us for being afraid—he understands that we are, one of the reasons that the encouragement “do not be afraid” is one of the most common in scripture. He tells us that there is nothing to fear, that he is in control, yet he also holds us securely until we actually believe that it’s true. Read more His hand beneath my chin
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What is being lost

April 25, 2020 by Grace Kelley

So much can feel like it is being taken away right now; but what if all that I am losing are the false places from which I pretended to be self-sufficient? My dirty wells are being tarred over.Read more What is being lost
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Clearing Space for what looks like Death

April 10, 2020 by Grace Kelley

As I write this, it’s the “Time of Corona”— a season of global fear and pandemic, and my words have gotten jammed in my throat. The chaos of the present moment keeps getting to me, no matter how I feel I have my feet securely under me one moment, the next I hear something else—another… Read more
To the God of Hagar

March 3, 2021 by Grace Kelley

We know
that you see—
but we are having a hard time
believing
what we are seeing
and seeing it—
still believing
that you see.Read more To the God of Hagar
Ash Wednesday

February 17, 2021 by Grace Kelley

Thoughts of our own mortality
have never been nearer
than these masks that hide
our faces but not our fears.
Ashes to ashes
and dust to dust—
fears coming nearer like the lines
the fire fighters drew to protect the houses
the roads, the school campus
in the mountains burning down. Read more Ash Wednesday
Beneath my Shed Skin

January 27, 2021 by Grace Kelley

I am shedding my skin— the old broken down shell is cracked and sloughing off my shining shoulders. I am letting go of the girl I thought I was last year two years ago, definitely ten. Would she recognize me? Would we be friends? I’m letting go of those questions too. They have no place… Read more
Now you are the Seed

August 17, 2020 by Grace Kelley

Now you are the Seed for my Grandaddy Roy Now the soil is carved to make way for hands that handled seeds with care all their earthly days. Now you are the seed— Once you made space for what looked like death. For dried soy beans & shriveled corn— dusty field peas & string beans… Read more
To my white brothers and sisters; if you think racism isn’t hurting you—think again.

June 9, 2020 by Grace Kelley

To my white brothers and sisters; if you think racism isn’t hurting you—think again. This is a call to repentance. Read more To my white brothers and sisters; if you think racism isn’t hurting you—think again.