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Christine Yount Jones

In Your Favor Is Life

“In Your favor is life” Psalm 30:5  You alone lift me up. You are everything. You alone can fix things. You hold things together. You make things strong. You alone deserve praise. You get my thanks. You must be declared. You instead of others. You alone are…

Open My Ears, God

“Mine ears Thou hast opened…” Psalm 40:6 The Hebrew word for “opened” is “digged.” Eugene Peterson writes in Eat This Book: That these words literally mean “ears Thou hast dug for me. The psalm’s poet was bold to imagine…

Night: A Poem

Lights Fighting against the dark Against ink-blotted sky that Threatens to swallow up All hope It is impossible To wage war Against the night Alone Vulnerable Powerless Let the night cover us With quiet With sleep The things we crave…