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Plastic and Red Hot: A Collection of Devotional Work


Julian Lynn


Copyright 2010, Julian Lynn


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Table of Contents


ONE: 1,000 Blossoms

TWO: Song

THREE: Spark of Life

FOUR: Fool

FIVE: Nakedness

SIX: A May Poem

SEVEN: Plastic and red hot...

EIGHT: Essential Self

NINE: Pine Cone

TEN: Grammar

ELEVEN: Sidewalks

TWELVE: Vibrant

THIRTEEN: Falling

FOURTEEN: Promise

FIFTEEN: Asunder

SIXTEEN: Ripeness

SEVENTEEN: Progress

EIGHTEEN: Twice More

NINETEEN: New Poem

TWENTY: New Poem II

TWENTY-ONE: Seamlessly

TWENTY-TWO: Into Pyrex

TWENTY-THREE: Utterance

TWENTY-FOUR: Remaining

TWENTY-FIVE: Grace



Preface

I saw it in the art department. It was one of the miracles there—broken, injured people creating beauty. There was so much glory, a piece of God in every one of those souls. On good days, it made it possible to forgive them and myself for our many shortcomings—posturing, jostling for position and power and all of the other deceptions we engaged in—both within ourselves and toward others.

As a child, I was untutored in the meditative possibilities in chores. Not knowing how to uncover or articulate the desires of my heart, I found myself growing angrier with the addition of each new responsibility. As an adult, I was mapless, opening and closing an endless series of doors on scenes and situations that I would rather not have experienced at all. Who was I? Where was I going?


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