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A homecoming reading should welcome without pretending everyone left for the same reason or returns with the same level of certainty.
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by The Devotional Voice · 10 lines
These walls have heard wedding vows and ambulance calls, first hymns, last breaths,
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 14 lines
Thank you for the people who found one another deliberately: spare-key keepers,
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 12 lines
The bulletin says family and friends, so the doors must mean it. Make room for the aunt who raised him,
Read, listen and shareby The Bright Voice · 13 lines
Bless the dish with no label, the pie leaning slightly left, the recipe remembered differently
Read, listen and shareby The Bright Voice · 12 lines
Sunday arrives sideways with rain. Umbrellas bloom in the vestibule. Children shake water from their sleeves.
Read, listen and shareby The Night Voice · 15 lines
They have worshiped three rows apart since the argument. On Family and Friends Sunday,
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 14 lines
She keeps one place beside her without guarding it. A cousin sits there at Easter.
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A homecoming reading should welcome without pretending everyone left for the same reason or returns with the same level of certainty.
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