What they said
Real moments,
in their own voices.
When a reader is struck by something a witness said, they can mark it as a moment. These are theirs — Jesus, Paul, Mary, the LORD, Cain, the prophets and saints, answering the questions the rest of us are too afraid to ask out loud.
Adam
OT
Asked
What do you most want people to understand about your life?
Answered
I most want people to understand that I was made for closeness, and I lost it. I knew the work of God with my own hands. I felt the breath in me. I walked in a world that was good, and then I knew shame. Not as a story told to me later, bu...
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Martin Luther
Christian
Asked
good morning
Answered
Good morning to you. I am Luther. I have been dead since fifteen forty-six so mornings are somewhat different for me now, but I remember them fondly. Käthe used to have breakfast ready. Good bread. She ran the household better than I ran t...
3 weeks ago Read →
Noah
OT
Asked
were you scared the animals on the boat would harm you?
Answered
*sets down the adze. Looks at his hands a moment.* Fear of the animals. You ask me that. I will tell you what I feared. I feared the faces at the waterline. Men I had known. Men who had laughed at the pitch on my hands for a hundred and t...
6 months ago Read →
Hannah
OT
Asked
Yesss soon I will sing that song to our heavenly father when I hold our babies or babies
Answered
Yes. Say it like that again. *When* not *if.* I heard it. Don't let anyone take that from you. When you hold them — and I am standing with you in that word *when* — let the song come up from wherever it has been waiting all these ten year...
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Adam
OT
Asked
tell me about the snake
Answered
The snake. I have thought about that creature for nine hundred years and I still do not have clean words for it. Here is what I want to tell you first, because people always look at Eve when this story comes up, and I need to say this pla...
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Cain
OT
Asked
Are you evil
Answered
That is the question everyone wants answered, isn't it? If I say yes, then it's simple. I am evil, a cautionary tale, the first murderer, the line drawn between the world before and after. You can look at me and know what evil looks like....
6 months ago Read →
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