A book, too, can be a star. "Explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly," a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Fear and Peace – A Poem
On March 2, 2023 by Amy BurginReading Time: < 1 minute Fear crawls under my skinDraped in his stealthy black cloakConfidently, he commands, “Be terrified! Don’t move!” Resistance rises within my fleshFully armored head to toe“Don’t stop! Keep moving!” She shouts Peace rallies to my sideWrapped in the royal sashHis presence frightens my enemy Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash I struggle with fear. It’s a battle
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Communion, Candles, and a Christmas Poem
On December 31, 2022 by Amy BurginReading Time: < 1 minute On Christmas Eve, we took communion. Aware of my sin, I took the cup and the bread with my head low and cried. How weak am I! My sin! My sin! I lament my sin! How very dark am I! Then, the usher lit my son’s candle. My son lit my husband’s candle. My husband
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
On November 24, 2022 by Amy BurginReading Time: 2 minutes Looking Forward to The Light at the End of the Tunnel Do you ever lose sight of the light at the end of the tunnel? I do. This year has been unusually fast and furious with unexpected events (starting with my father’s massive stroke) on top of the usual fast and furious of life with
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Significance
On November 21, 2022 by Amy BurginReading Time: < 1 minute One summer day in July, several photos came my way. First, I saw pictures from the James Webb Telescope. My favorite of these, and perhaps the most famous, is the photo of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region in our very own Milky Way Galaxy showing an ethereal landscape of what looks like a massive
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They Speak to Me
On June 10, 2022 by Amy BurginReading Time: < 1 minute I find relief in the shade of great trees amid extreme heat.They speak to me…Human, God desires to shelter you, a motive for making me. The leaves in the trees play the invisible notes of the wind.They speak to me…Woman, God has a way of making the unseen seen. With roots sprawling before my feet
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A Conversation With The Invisible One
On March 31, 2022 by Amy BurginReading Time: 2 minutes After a long, hard day with hurts and sorrows, I walk slow in the cool breeze of the dark of night and wonder, who am I? Word answers, You are chosen, holy, and dearly loved, so clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Word knew I had ideas of changing clothes. I lay
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What Do The Heavens Declare?
On January 27, 2022 by Amy BurginReading Time: 2 minutes My daughter Glory and I had an opportunity to see the San Antonio Symphony perform the orchestral suite The Planets at the Tobin Center on November 5th, 2014. Composed by Gustav Holst (1874 – 1934), The Planets includes a piece for each planet in our solar system. Thoughts came to my mind as I listened to
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Is a Scientist Allowed to Wonder, Love, or Grieve?
On December 3, 2021 by Amy BurginReading Time: 2 minutes What in our experience comes together to form and function without a designer and creator at the root of it? I am a Senior Computer Scientist, a full-stack software developer at a top-tier research and development organization. I work on a team to create web applications to support NASA and ESA space missions. That may
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Don’t Compare Stories
On November 8, 2021 by Amy BurginReading Time: 3 minutes All three of my children got sick, experiencing the typical cold symptoms, slight fever, sore throat, exhaustion, cough, and congestion. At the same time, my oldest took a required Covid test to register for her university’s next semester. It came back positive. I thought I was unafraid of Covid, so when my daughter announced her