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A parable of marriage
Christian Century, August 21, 2007 by Steve Wilson
A parable of marriage Disregarding the heat, we settled down to it: clearing a path through the elmwood and oak. It's slow going--an all-day job. Stones fat as watermelons. Quick, gray blades of limestone layered into the ground a foot or more. We rooted them out with crowbars, a shovel, or dug them free by hand, then tossed the rocks into a wheelbarrow. Tomorrow, they'll be put to use: load by load we'll haul them up the hill for a border, follow our new trail straight on to the high west pasture. Where late in the day sun breaks against shade, burns whitest fronting the treeline of the woods--light upon shadow--we stopped work for the night. Passing you the last drink of water from the canteen, I nodded toward home, and we traced the way back down in silence, the only sounds a locust, the snap of twigs, our workboots scraping over rock shards and dust. We kept close to ourselves, listening.
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