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To Lean Is Another Way to Stand
by Holly GranthamI remember when I first saw this tree. Its massive trunk stood in stark contrast to its feathery leaves. I was incredibly humbled just standing next to it–painfully and gracefully...
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Foretaste
by Holly GranthamIn the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ~Aaron Rose The daylight has shifted, quietly and now it gently wanes. Days are still warm and locusts still drone...
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The Great Weaving
by Holly GranthamI remember the very moment I first lay eyes upon my second son, wet and bright-eyed and so fresh from God. In that instant, when new life breathes fire into tired bones, I saw her in...
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In The Beginning
by Holly GranthamThere are some moments so gorgeous and rimmed with light that to feel their flutter this side of heaven is to be touched by that which is sacrosanct And in the slightest turning of...
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Lessons in Light and Dark
by Holly GranthamIt happened so fast, the light leaving. It was a slow fade, at first, with the late afternoon sun casting weaker beams in the sky. And then, like a candle snuffed quietly, the sun...
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Spinning Straw into Gold
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this This last week before Christmas has taken on a life of its own this year. Right when my sweet little family was gearing up for afternoons baking cookies...
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The Thing With Feathers
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this I grew up in a family that loved birds. As far back as my mind can remember, I have opened my eyes each morning and quickly found a window through which...
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Small Acts, Great Love
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this The house is quiet now. All day there has been this swirling of vagrant leaves and fluttering of bare branches and it has been enough to make me wonder...
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The Folds of Grace
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this Some days just ring hollow as if all the hopes I’ve thrown long and wide just swirl round and round slower and slower from the weight borne upon them...
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Practicing Resurrection
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this It is Easter Monday and only two weeks have cycled since my mother passed away. It’s interesting how time can hang motionless and unwavering with one...
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When God’s Face is a Technicolor Zinnia
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this In ways familiar and comforting the Earth has tilted just so these last few weeks. At times, I have stood quiet, feet planted still, eyes peering into...
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A Golden Thread
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this Words have been slow in coming since we last exchanged love tokens That day, that goodbye keeps repeating over and over and over in my mind’s eye...
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Dinner With The Magician
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this She called just a day before she would be rolling through town, hope dripping round the corners of her question. Was there a chance I might be available...
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But Joy Comes In The Morning
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this I still shake my head every time our eyes meet. His being here, moving and breathing among us? It is still so often magical and mystical that I...
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The Murmuration of the Body
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this I remember the first time I witnessed the beautiful choreography of a flock of starlings in flight. It was a sharply cool autumn afternoon and I had...
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When We Are Like Trees
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this Their needle-like tongues whisper fluent and ripe over the water flaking gold as the evening sun catches their pendulous cones twirling Theirs is a...
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How to Make a Life
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this Her absence rings most empty at the breakfast table. Every morning, my dad starts the coffee maker, drops his raisin bread in the toaster and slowly...
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When Love Came Down
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this I know I don’t speak for everyone, but I also know I am not alone. Although often rich in joy and beauty, this year has been rife with struggle and...
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In Darkness and In Light
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this “We’ll become what we accumulate the most of. Gather love.” –Bob Goff I stand in the hallway, staring at my calendar. The old has been replaced by the...
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My Leaky Childhood
by Holly Grantham Share on Facebook Retweet this My childhood was the kind you read about in storybooks. I’ve circled round this truth, repeatedly, in the last few months. Perhaps, this musing comes of...
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