I boiled my life down

to the purest extract

and watched it dry

and flake away

—Timothy P. Schilling

Timothy P. Schilling writes from the Center for Parish Spirituality, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is the author of Lonesome Road: A Memoir of Faith.

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