It’s Our Turn on the Timeline: What It Was Like for One Woman to Be in My Book
From left to right, Laura Kauffman, Christina Hubbard, Faith Scott, Nancy Bartelt
I cannot get this line out of my head: “It's our turn on the timeline.”
What will we do with our stories, the stuff of our every day lives? We live here and now in this time and in our unique places. It's our turn.
This line is from Nancy Bartelt, my dear friend, and one of the nine women in my book Water in Her Tender Leaves. In response to being in the project, she's written a series of haikus.
I can’t think of anything better to share with you today.
loudest lyrics heard
as a child---were they wild… like
shame? or tender prayer
I wonder---what can
generations genererate?
songs of scars and hope
faces turned toward God
embodied love on a cross
resurrection comes
eyes on horizon
it's our turn on the timeline
we rise together
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when you find a friend
who cheers haikus with gusto
hug, laugh & praise God!
to be seen and known
stories heard and held, holy!
presence---such a gift
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to be seen and known---
you heard & held my story
you are such a gift
Preorder your copy of Water in Her Tender Leaves, a collection of photopoetry, a witness to what it means to have resilient faith today.
“Christina Hubbard has crafted a beautiful witness to the resiliency of nine ordinary women who transverse with faith and divine grace the heights of bliss and the collapse of dreams.
Through the evocative mediums of black and white photography and fourteen different styles of poetry, Hubbard draws us into the stories, giving us a glimpse of what is possible when we bind our suffering to that of Jesus, trusting that by his grace, in the end, all shall be well.”
