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Published on catapult magazine, Tradition II edition, December 2011 by Amanda Cleary Eastep Photo Credit: christian associates via Compfight cc There was something about that big paper sack. The weight of it in my small hand promised something wonderful. It was heavy with possibilities, with the chance to share and exchange with my little brother […]
Read MoreBy Amanda Cleary Eastep “Tesser well.” The handwritten words quiver across the novel’s title page, and I imagine the woman, then in her 80s, whose trembling hand penned them. “For Amanda” is written above the strange instruction, and below it, the name of my favorite childhood author, Madeleine L’Engle. In 2004, I mailed my 1976 […]
Read More[In anticipation of the end of winter–yes, I start anticipating early–I’m sharing something I wrote last spring. Ah, spring…] He made us from this. This darkness, this ancient batter of living and dead and living again things. I like that God made us from dirt, instead of from nothingness. I like that we walk earth’s surface until […]
Read More“My mother was baptized in the Mississippi River,” she had said many times, always adding the all important “wearing her blue dress with the white polka dots.”
Read MoreThousands of people halt their activities at certain times throughout the day to turn toward their god and pray…unfortunately Muslims in Indonesia have been facing the wrong direction.
Read MoreBeyond the “Smile!” lies so much that the wedding photos don’t show.
Read MoreI am halfway through my second week of the three-week Daniel Fast…I will soon morph into one of several vegetables. I’m wondering which one.
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My grandmother never imagined when she was sewing the curtains out of the same sunflower- patterned sheets that covered my bed in her spare room that God would see them.
Read MoreA brief introduction to the women and children we feed the first Monday of every month…
Read MoreThis was recently published online by Catapult Magazine. The theme is GUILT. Ah, so much to write about on that topic…
http://www.catapultmagazine.com/guilt/article/what-a-friend-we-have-in-guilt
Amanda Cleary Eastep 