Sarah Rennicke, Author at ALTARWORK

Sarah Rennicke
July 16, 2017
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Greater Strength

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How does forgiveness flow freely from our chest? Out of our heart, granting pardon to another, when our heart has burned in hurt and felt the fire of betrayal? It…

Sarah Rennicke
July 9, 2017
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Forgotten To Remember

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It is terrible to forget. And yet I have. For clusters of months, mounting to a year. Until I found my way, one Sunday, to Cedar Lake Park, the place…

Sarah Rennicke
July 2, 2017
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You First

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The rain is gentle. So are You. Reminding me to come back to my first love. Before the world and all its distortions broke my heart, when I walked with…

Sarah Rennicke
June 25, 2017
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How To Love You Well

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It’s that effortless, always hopeful, always expanding kind of love that looks straight into the soul and says, “I am going to cover your heart with the best of mine.…

Sarah Rennicke
June 18, 2017
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Spark and Steam

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Through the hiss of antique silver espresso machine reverberating around the high-windowed room of a downtown café, brick and mortar building, I shrug off the cold. Everything seems to sting…

Sarah Rennicke
May 28, 2017
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A Time To Speak

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I once feared the echoes of my own mouth. The heaves and gasps my lips pushed forward, the noise breaking into the air. I could not fathom what formed from…

Sarah Rennicke
May 21, 2017
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Hand Over My Heart

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I haven’t realized just how scared I am of handing over my heart to You until the wrappers of my self-denial peel off and I delicately hold its fragile contents…

Sarah Rennicke
April 30, 2017
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Tonight I Am Here

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Tonight I am here. Densely embedded in the forest of the unknown. And I know You told me it wasn’t going to be easy, that I wasn’t going to understand…

Sarah Rennicke
April 23, 2017
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Burn My Bones

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Smoke and sear across my heart. For something. For someone. I need to feel needles pricking my skin, leaving imprints on my soul. I need to be blinded by beauty,…

Sarah Rennicke
April 9, 2017
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Crucify

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“What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify Him!” “Why? What crime has He committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted…

Sarah Rennicke
March 12, 2017
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Hope Still Springs

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But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise You more and more. -Psalm 71:14 More energy leaks away when I try and keep You…

Sarah Rennicke
March 5, 2017
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All Around The Sun

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Subtle shades of cream blue, peach, rose petal pink, ivory. 33,000 feet above the earth will make the looming gaps between sky and soil insignificant. Cracks carve bone out of ice;…