Barbed wire + thorns : a Christian's reflection on suffering /
Malmgren, Lena.
Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-222).
Through darkness into light -- The answer, if there is one -- To go or not to go -- Seed on bare rock -- Going up to Jerusalem -- What is meaningful -- Here begins the great loneliness -- Pious lies -- Heaven has twelve gates -- Ash Wednesday -- The rightful Lord of all things -- Jesus hangs in our hall -- Take up your cross -- Deserts -- The emptiness -- The first bow -- A play about Jesus -- The horrific obedience -- Empty eyes -- The day the darkness wants me -- A boundary for the waters -- We cannot own peace -- Israel and Jacob -- Conversion -- You Israel, you Jacob -- The double appellation -- The whole heart -- A child such as this -- We have to take what life gives us -- Are you bitter? -- The birds of the air -- The power and the glory -- The power -- Eye for eye, missile for missile -- Barbed wire and thorns -- Growing along the ground -- To be in pain -- Like clay in His hand -- Meditation on hoarfrost -- A woman and a half -- This is my body -- The beautiful -- Try to see me! -- Unguarded -- This bread, this wine -- Bread for tomorrow -- Mary's annunciation -- Barbed wire in snow -- A magnificent little man -- Seed and harvest -- The harvest -- Always open -- Mortgaged to the hilt -- A new word -- Built to last forever -- Like a weaver his cloth -- I am hard pressed between the two -- One who knows what it is to lose someone -- Blessed is he who comes -- The cross -- The donkey king and his prophets -- In the temple precincts -- Who is he looking for? -- God's kingdom is near -- He comes the same day you do -- Nameless nights -- The sign of Jonah.
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