The Daily Spur 04.03.2026

My grandfather once said to me, when I was a child,
“If you had been a boy, you would have become a priest.”

This was long before women were allowed to stand at the altar.

My grandmother had bought me a children’s book—
365 Stories from the Bible.
Every night she would read one story before I fell asleep.

Every Sunday meant Sunday school.

At school I knew my Bible well.
I was the star pupil when it came to scripture.

But somewhere along the way, something changed.

There were things I could not forgive God for.
Things that prayers did not stop.
Things that no miracle came to save.

At first I prayed and prayed.

Then I stopped.

Once I learned to read on my own,
I spent my time in the attic
with books like Nancy Drew—
my escape from both the bad things
and from God.

Yet even now, I still know my Bible.

And one teaching has never left me:

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I learned it in Norwegian first.
But its meaning travels well.

— Maggie
The Afterlove Voice 💫