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The army of righteousness grows every day.

I wrote this piece five years ago today and titled it "Hope." That was before I knew what a struggle I'd begin to have with hope just a few months later. I appreciated reading it again, so I'm sharing for anyone else who needs a little dose of unhampered hope amidst (waves hands) all this. (6/6)

Creation explodes past the sterile
Tick marks in boxes beside empty action points
Lavish
Awkward
Beautiful
Living in wonderful imperfection
Eagerly open to heart-pounding possibility (5/6)

Becoming divinely human
In this renaissance of being myself
Honest
Vulnerable
Pure
Wholly who I am
Yet beyond who I’d believed I could be (4/6)

Birth is an act of unconstrained power
Lifebearing requires surrender to forces
Greater
Richer
Stronger
Than limits set against insecurity
Checking my ability to grow in unashamed grace (3/6)

I am not frightened as the wind picks up
Thunderheads and lightning bolts inspire awe
Wild
Reckless
Alive
A tautly drawn bowstring of anticipation
Releases in exhilaration and revival (2/6)

Does the sign say "Lords of the Plains"?

As I read this post, taking in the final sentences, I saw the makings of an awesome epitaph. "Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social was a good man who lived a good life and said some good things worth listening to." Thanks for providing a little piece of inspiration I needed tonight. 3/3

Ever since—especially after becoming a mom myself—what words I might write for my own tombstone has rolled though the tunnels at the back of my brain, occasionally popping its little head up like a prairie dog in the Badlands. Not in a morbid way so much as a statement of who I'd like to be. 2/3

I agree. It is obvious when you aren't tangled in the web of lies woven to make you believe that fighting abortion access is actually protecting babies.

Also directed toward people making jokes about families "deserving" to lose their kids in rushing floodwaters or to vaccine-preventable diseases because they voted for this or that candidate. I don't care about your politics; if you can dismiss some people as expendable, that is what divides us.