BLESSINGS TO THE FLOCK KNOWING WE WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE,
There is a Family of God that many may know. Most caring people would include their own bloodline in the Family of God. We may even say we are praying for our family to know God. One thing for sure is that God only has
children, no parents and no grandchildren. Each is called to COME not because someone else has come to believe, but only because we have COME TO BELIEVE.
Garage sale items
Every Saturday
Dad would go to garage sales, garden sales
knickknack shops and antique stores
looking for stuff, any stuff
a broken J Stevens .22 rifle
water damaged
Bohemian Brotherhood insurance books
in Czech he couldn’t read
and always he bought
six sets of the good stuff
one for each child
six Edison gramophones with wax cylinders
left in the damp attic
until the veneer peeled
six hurricane lamps
metal so rusty
a finger could push through with ease
Yet when his cousin Paul died
and the kids put the house goods
up for auction
he wouldn’t even place a bid
on his grandfather’s trunk
that brought the family to America
just shook his head
flicked his hands
in that peculiar peevish manner
and walked away
Frank Poduska
March 9, 2010
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