Tag: anxiety
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Grace in the Pandemic
The past weeks have been difficult and stressful for many of us, or perhaps all of us. It’s no exaggeration to say there have been sleepless nights, worries in the day, challenges in family life, and a kind of fogginess about where life is going. This is on top of the very real suffering that…
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Advent Psalm (126)
Advent Psalm (126) Weary and sleepless, caught off guard by racing pulse, panic, vertigo; rare reprieve to breathe, palpable lostness. Heading for home, down old Highway 6 through tears, Aberfoyle, Puslinch, Clappison’s Corners, steering south on automatic pilot, college kid’s stick-shift Jetta. Over Skyway Bridge, past belching steelwork ugliness, along escarpment’s familiar lines; angled off-ramp…
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Anxiety (a new poem)
Anxiety An old acquaintance appears with- out invitation, under the radar, fastening invisible hands on heart and throat – salvo in ongoing war. Disorienting deja-vu says I’ve been here before, but “here” is lost and adrift; familiar faces somehow out of reach, with utter otherness imbued. Greet this friend, enemy – refuse to fight in…
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