They said he was seated on his throne. The wounded got up from the ground. He made them whole and it happened before our eyes. We had not seen this before though the missionaries said he would. He is a God who robs his people of what they are and want to be and makes them into sheep. We wanted to be warriors and did not want to bleat. Then the ones we looked for brought us whiskey. It was something we had to have to survive as sheep.
Diane Glancy is a long-time writer. The words, “We must be sparing,” came from her Aunt Martha who lived through the Depression. Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her latest books: Island of the Innocent, a Consideration of the Book of Job (2020), A Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story, (2021), Home Is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit (2022), “Psalm to Whom(e) (2023), Quadrille, Christianity and the Early New England Indians (2024), The Cubist and the Lost Notebooks of the Painter’s Wife (2025), and Lazarus, the Intended Writings, forthcoming in 2026.
