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All hallows
It took so long to get the fire lit, even though the wind blew as though the Holy Spirit fanned the flames of Pentecost herself. The children in their costumes came and went without judgement, candy-sweet. When the tinder finally … Continue reading
Posted in holy days, poetry, prayer, preparing for Sunday with poetry, story
Tagged All Saints, Hallowe'en
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Prayer for a BANI world
BANI, a framework developed by Jamais Cascio, stands for Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible.
For people of faith, there is one reliable place to turn when human understanding no longer works. Hence this prayer for a BANI world. Continue reading
Posted in current events, prayer
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To count them
A meditation on verses from Psalm 139
Labour
In which we breathe in solidarity with the breathless. In which we groan in harmonic relationship with the suffering. In which we dream in creative union with the author of life’s manifesto: decrying death, deploring despotism, denouncing the cynicism of … Continue reading
Fire
Storm that breaks the sealon the dome that holds the watersof the heavens apart from watersthat brooded life into creation Storm that breaks the heateven as fire is splitting the sky,falling to the ground wrappedin quenching rain Mirrored against the … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, preparing for Sunday with poetry
Tagged Jesus, lightning, Luke 12:49-56, rainbow, Year C Proper 15
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Heart/broken
I said I needed to reflect on it. If we’ve met, you know that means poetry, the *word* that tells me more of what it means than I tell it … Continue reading
Posted in #GunstoGrace, poetry, prayer
Tagged 2 Peter 3:13, 2 Peter 3:3, blacksmithing, gunstograce
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Bread
Bread
Who, in the night,
would give their neighbour stones
and say, “Here, make bread.” Continue reading
Mire
Save me, O God;I am sinking in deep mire,and there is no firm ground for my feet. I am not getting out the same wayas I landed in this predicament,ensnared by gravity and half-digested decay,trapped in the peat bog where … Continue reading
Mother’s Day
Including words from the original Mother’s Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe The very Earth is heaving beneath the weight of war. Fire consumes and leaves no food for the rest of God’s creatures; lead pollutes the soil, the seas, the … Continue reading
Posted in current events, poetry, prayer
Tagged Julia Ward Howe, Mother's Day, peace, war
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Catherine and the world on fire
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. – Catherine of SienaBut what if the world were already on fire? Set the world on fire,blaze like oil across the waters such that none … Continue reading
Posted in holy days, poetry, prayer
Tagged Catherine of Siena, creation, ocean, world on fire
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