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Learning to pray
They didn’t tell us why … Continue reading
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Holy Week
Seven days. Seven shades of suffering silence. Seven last words: thirst, famine, fever, finality, yet, too, there is forgiveness, family, a future spit from split lips, a dry tongue still willing to kiss the face of God
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Tagged crucifixion, Holy Week, Lent, Seven Last Words
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The prayer of Lazarus
The prayer of Lazarus, silent by necessity. Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged Adam, creation, death, Lazarus, mortality, prayer, Year A Lent 5
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Marked men
Later, they sit silent as the grave side by side,
watching a late sun set over the Jordan… Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged baptism, Dead Sea, Jesus, John 11:1-45, Jordan, Raising of Lazarus, Resurrection, Year A Lent 5
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Well
“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did.” John 4:29 Continue reading
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Tagged John 4, woman at the well, Year A Lent 3
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In time
Without time,
can even God make a beginning? Continue reading
Forty days of fear
The most ubiquitous instruction in the Bible, we are told, is this: Do not be afraid. And yet, its counterpart is not unfamiliar, either: Fear the Lord your God. Ash Wednesday marks the first of forty days of Lent. It … Continue reading
Penitence
After William Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” 1800 Recollected in tranquillity, passions burnt beyond their embers. Unguarded breath conjures dust devils, smoke without fire, echoes of disgrace remembered by the ashen light of dawn. Dignified in variegated gray, sifted, judiciously, … Continue reading
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Tagged "recollected in tranquillity", Ash Wednesday, Lent, penitence, sin, Wordsworth
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Bitter
Stone on my tongue cold and bitter grit rasps my teeth sets them on edge sharp and dangerous; my heart is in my mouth. Take this heart of stone the bitter grit; feed me sweet flesh feed me sweet honeyed … Continue reading
Return
Without prayer my words are empty air Without silence I bellow in the wind Without praise my anger turns to bitterness Without passion my blood runs wasted cold Without humility endurance loses its endeavour Without return disquiet finds no rest … Continue reading
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