In memory of my dearest friend, one of the strongest people I have had the pleasure of knowing…

It doesn’t make it better

She said gently

As others were so

Quick to offer

Her up pity

For all she had

Lost

All she had

Been through

As if they

Thought…

I’m disabled

So I know what it’s like to be looked at like

I’m less or not at all

You see me

But do you really?

I’m blind

I’m deaf

I’m mute.

I’m in a wheelchair

I’m an amputee

I’m one of many

Looked at far

To often

With little…

She cries out

Tears of hurt

They throw

Words at her

Like she doesn’t matter

She’s beautiful.

Her world feels

Like it’s closing in around her

A broken girl

Singing

A broken song

She’s beautiful.

They call her

Names

Make fun of

Her

Burn scars

Marking her body

A map…

For as long as I can remember, words had an impact on my life. As a child I was diagnosed with dyslexia, but my Nonna never let me use that for excuse. And she hated the word bored. “As long as you have books and imagination you will never be…

Translation of the Seventy

History, Reception, and Contemporary Use of the Septuagint

by Edmon L. Gallagher

Pub Date 01 Aug 2021 |

Abilene Christian University Press & Leafwood Publishers, Abilene Christian University Press

Christian | History | Religion & Spirituality

I am reviewing a copy of Translation of the Seventy…