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The Book, The Burial, by R. Penman Smith is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and directly from Tate Publishing. The Burial is a Spiritual Thriller with a dark twist and a redemptive outcome. The story springs out personal experience; ‘write what you know about’. Those who are comfortable with fantasy and are not afraid of the reality of the spiritual warfare inherent in Christian life will love this book.

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Imagination is the faculty through which we discover the world around us, both the world we see, and that other unseen world that hovers on the fringe of sight. Love, joy and laughter, poetry and prose, are the gifts through which we approach that complex world. Through the gift of imagination we have stepped into an ever flowing river where the realm of Faerie touches Middle Earth.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Abuse!










The child was bothersome,
So she slapped it up
the side of the head
and it yowled,
which bothered her
even more
challenging
her control
which she barely had.
So she slapped it up
the side of the head
again.
Then the child grew up
never understanding
why it bothered her so much
when her child was bothersome.
So she slapped it up
the side of the head
and it yowled
which bothered her
even more
challenging
her control
which she barely had.


In the reading from this morning’s Gospel Jesus tells us that whatever we do to others we do also to him (Matthew 25:40).  This applies not only to feeding the hungry, giving the thirsty a drink, welcoming strangers, clothing the naked, and visiting the sick and those in prison.  It also has a broader application to issues such as child abuse.  The voices of the Church, your voice and mine, needs to be heard, and where we can we are responsible for reporting abuse and for education.

The poem is from my collection of "Kentucky Melodies" that deals with some social issues.
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