Tangled

Poem by Rachel Joy Welcher

TANGLED

When will you realize, oh my soul,

that there will always be a child

born on the same day that

someone else dies?

That it is not selfish to be happy,

even with wreckage

in your rear-view?

That it is not within your power,

to untangle joy from pain?

Rachel Joy Welcher, Two Funerals, Then Easter

about the author

Rachel Joy Welcher

Rachel Joy Welcher is a poet and author living in South Dakota with her husband, Pastor Evan Welcher, and their longed-for daughter, Hildegaard. Rachel works as an editor at Fathom Magazine and Lexham Press and received her Master of Letters in theology from The University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of four books: "Blue Tarp" (Finishing Line Press, 2016), "Two Funerals, Then Easter" (Dustlings Press, 2018), "Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality" (InterVarsity Press, 2020), and "Sometimes Women Lie About Being Okay" (Dustlings Press, 2022).

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