Tabitha

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”

— Anne Lamott, Somehow (133)

“Most importantly, don’t be afraid to talk about submitting! Publishing is the complicated, unwieldy, but essential system that determines readers’ ability to access our work. If we don’t talk about it, the big questions will haunt us, drawing a divide between the initiated and the uninitiated. Instead of keeping the path to publication a

I want to find my place

amongst the people of Advent

but I can’t quite decide who I am.

I want to be pregnant with God

but it takes such a toll on the body.

I have given birth to things before

And labor is hard and untimely //

I want to welcome angels and say yes,

to anything.

but if I saw an angel I would hold him

hostage and send a ransom note of questions

“If Jacob had been a little less envious, if Esau had been a little less boorish, this epochal turn of things, this wholly unimpressive moment, would never have entered sacred history. This is an instance of the fact that the covenant is not contingent upon human virtue, even human intention. It is sustained by the will of God, which is so strong