Sunday
05Oct
Will Heaven Be Like This?
Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 01:11PM Today I thought about the rhubarb patch that my mother kept in our backyard. Whenever I think of that patch, I see myself as a six or seven year old, playing underneath an apple tree, and behind me the big stone wall that traversed the entire south end of our property. There was a field behind the stone wall, and a horse that grazed there. Sometimes, the horse would come up to the stone wall, his head peering over, and my sister and I would give him a lump of sugar or an apple. I remember the feel of his wet lips, the slobbery gulp as he lapped the food from our hands....
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