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ElianaFolk wisdom, women's voice

For the reader with nothing on the list, this shows the quiet son who only ever re-dug his father's wells and the night God turned up and blessed him for somebody else's sake, and puts the reader on the same ground as everyone else at the table.

Genesis 26:2411 min

You Never Did Anything Notable

Not Because Of Your Righteousness

Nobody Asks You Over

The Photograph From That Sunday

After Everybody Has Gone To Bed

The Clause At The Bottom Of The Page

What Was Said In The Room You Left

The Magnet Holding Up A Promise

The Day You Held the Rope

Staff, Not Guest

The Table Is Not For The Useful

The Mark You Did Not Choose

Tolerated At The Table

Praying Words With Nothing Behind Them

The Name You Gave Yourself After

The Word On The Spine

The Only Adult In The House

The Name Written In The Front Of The Bible

The Habit You Have Not Beaten

The Argument Nobody Saw

The Debt You Inherited

The Thing You Cannot Name To Anybody

The Sandwich In The Car

The Reason You Think You Are Skipped

The Microwave At Twenty Past Six

Waiting To Feel Qualified

You Stopped Eating Properly

I Have Signed A Hundred Things

The One Nobody Would Pick

Standing At The Counter

You Have Been Studying It From Outside

For The Sake Of A Servant Long Gone

The Day You Were Baptised And Cannot Remember

The Word On The Form

The Form With No Advocate

Nobody Says It Right

The Front Of The Line

Called By The Name Of The House

Reading About The Field From The Gate

The Nickname That Never Left

Kind, But Not Bound

The Signature Line

The Story You Stopped Telling

The Reliable One

The Stones By The River

What He Called You When He Was Angry

Church Furniture

When The Memory Went

Until You Understand It All

The Trade And Nothing Else

Say It With Your Own Mouth

You Set It And Nobody Came

The Story Going Round About You

What They Call You At The Gate

The Bow Was Not Put There For You To Remember

Nobody Ever Said It To You

The Whole Street Came On

Your Doubt Is Not The Door

The Far Table By The Door

You Are Waiting To Feel Something

The Thing You Would Not Say Out Loud

The Night Shift

You Have Said The Word A Thousand Times

The Letter You Have To Answer

It Came Out Of Somebody

The Appointment You Go To Alone

The Card Somebody Gave You

The Meeting Where No One Speaks For You

It Is For People Raised In It

Read Like A Greeting Card

Eating Alone In A New Town

Waiting For Permission

Every Name But His Own

When The Mess Is Cleared Up

The Handshake That Did Not Hold

This Is Somebody Else's Son

For The Sake Of A Name Not Yours

The Step You Think You Missed

The Year You Felt Nothing

The Cafeteria On The Third Floor