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The Providence of Books

Stephanie Weller Hanson

“It is sometimes given to us, this lovely emptiness, and then the Holy Spirit can fill it . . . .”   Madeleine L’Engle . . . and it happens,...

Working with Clay

Stephanie Weller Hanson

Like the imprintof my two thumbs in clay,so you appear, my Lord,by what you leave behind. Disguisedin the tracery of fingerprint,the whorls a worldof delicate, true lines,you are revealed....