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Recent Posts
- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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prayer Archive
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Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: Coming Out
Posted on August 26, 2012 | 7 CommentsThe premonition was followed by two additional thoughts. I needed to come out of the closet. I needed to resign formally from the church. -
9 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “The Cello String to God”
Posted on August 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsAngela Felsted is a musician, poet, and nature lover. Her work has appeared in issue fifteen of Drown in Your Own Fears, in Chantarelle's Notebook, and on her blog. Her chapbooks, CLEAVE and Scarred were published in 2012. You can visit her at www.angelafelsted.com. -
Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: What If?
Posted on July 31, 2012 | 12 CommentsNow I was laughing, giddy with freedom. "I don't know if You're there! I don't know what any of this means!" The more I said it, the more it filled me, that burning in the bosom, that unbridled peace. -
Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: Afraid to Pray?
Posted on July 13, 2012 | 6 CommentsI only know that I wasn't strong enough to let the lamplight keep glowing, tiny as it was. I snuffed it out. -
17 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: True or False?
Posted on November 8, 2011 | 33 CommentsThe last time this was laid out for me in a sunday school lesson I decided to diagram how it actually works. I've tried to be as accurate as possible. -
09 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Faith is the Miracle
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 5 CommentsFaith doesn't affect anything. It doesn't cause anything. Faith is a commitment to see the world in a particular way. It's about choosing to look through the kaleidoscope. -
05 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: On Testimonies
Posted on July 30, 2011 | 19 CommentsI like fast and testimony meetings. I like them even though I sometimes feel like I've wandered into a UFO convention by mistake. -
An Unlikely Prayer of Thanksgiving
Posted on April 6, 2011 | 9 CommentsLast summer, Brent and Stuart went to get a haircut. While there, the stylist discovered that Stuart had lice (gasp!). We soon discovered that Marin also had it (double gasp!). Kennedy managed to escape unscathed. From my perspective growing up, it seemed like the only […] -
Top 10 Principles of Happiness That I was Never taught at Church
Posted on November 7, 2010 | 30 Comments1. Don’t believe everything you think. Putting aside all past conditioning — if that’s even possible – ask yourself, “Who am I?” At the core of your human experience, who or what are you? As you engage the question, attempt to answer it without […]