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Laura Kauffman

author of Carolina Clay and Typeset Poetry

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Tag: prayer

POEM: A Liturgy of the Enneagram

Liturgy #2 from the Email Series We believe, O Creator, that when You shaped us in our inmost beings, You saw all You made and said it was good.

Posted onJune 11, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagschurch, community, connection, enneagram, god, growth, gut triad, head triad, heart triad, jesus, liturgy, love, orientation to time, poem, Poetry, pray, prayer, repentance, self awareness, shadow sides, stances, worshipLeave a comment

POEM: A Liturgy for the Bullied

Written for one of my email subscribers, after she told me of the heartbreak of being bullied and watching her child go through the same thing.   Most days, O Lord, I choose to believe the words you said in that earliest Garden

Posted onMay 29, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsbullied, bullies, bully, forgiveness, jesus, liturgy, poem, Poetry, prayer, victimsLeave a comment

Flooded

My county is under water. The levees broke, the rains fell, and we collectively moved to higher ground.

Posted onMarch 20, 2019May 17, 2019CategoriesEssaysTagscommunity, flood, flooding, god, helpers, hope, iowa, jesus, mills county, natural disaster, poem, Poetry, prayer, tragedyLeave a comment

POEM: This Woman

*written for the women of the Franklin County CATCH Court, and for their patron saint in Luke 7

FormatAsidePosted onJanuary 10, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsfeminism, jesus, luke 7, poem, Poetry, poetrycommunity, power, prayer, sexual abuse, survivor, victim, woman, writingLeave a comment

POEM: Paying Attention Is A Form of Prayer

The mist only stays On the pond for a minute. We didn’t miss it. *title credit to a sentence I found carved in a tree at Fontenelle Forest in the plains of Nebraska

Posted onOctober 29, 2018October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagsautumn, haiku, mist, nature, outdoor, payattention, Poetry, pond, prayer, writingLeave a comment

About Laura

Laura Kauffman is a poet and writer living in the Loess Hills of Iowa.

She is the author of Carolina Clay: A Collection of Poems on Love and Loss.  Her writing and poems have been featured in Fathom Magazine, The Mudroom, Christians in Context, and The Core Omaha.

When she’s not writing, she can be found exploring the outdoors with her 15 chickens, 4 pets, 3 sons, and 1 husband, Chris.

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