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Peace Holds Us
Holy One, yesterday in the woods, the late afternoon light was so tender and strong, the shadows made art on the snow and the sky prepared to relax into the night.
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Epiphany and Lent speak to one another
Tomorrow is the last day of the Epiphany season; those days of wild stars and journey, of new sight, sometimes beautiful, sometimes painful, sometimes a poignant mingling of the two. If you’ve read my two earlier posts, Bending Into Advent and Portals to Joy, you’ll know that sight has been much on my mind during…
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Love and Long Nights
There are some mornings I wake with dread; things press in and I lie gathering my courage to drop under it all to where that terrible tension will be distilled in Love. This is the Advent week of Love.
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A Carol for the Longest Night
Silent Night, Holy NightHere we long for your LightHere your Presence is achingly nearHere your Love gently touches our fear Hold our tears in your heartHold our tears in your heart
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Portals to Joy
What if I dive down under the distortion . . . I now know that it’s not only me who doesn’t always enter Advent gracefully. Perhaps you’ve had your own less than elegant entry.Perhaps there’s been an entry that you’ve missed because it didn’t look the way you imagined Advent pause and practice should, deep…
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Bending into Advent
I entered Advent as a bent woman. I could not raise my head to see the blue stem of the candle and its blossom of light. I was a woman bowed for a week and today I am straightened, unfurled.
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Hallows
We are put in perspective by the great crowd of witnesses that assemble. Coming to this All Hallows evening we hear the call to pay attention to the permeable fabric of time. It is a potent time in which those others who have lived before, and will live after, crowd with us ontothe stage of…
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A Prayer for Our Return to School
Holy One, May our school year begin with compassion for where we are,uncertain,tired,and glad to see one another. May we begin with a thirstto learn ——students from teachersand teachers from students.
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The Presence in Absence
The absence of his presence, the presence of his absence, like a palpable thing.
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While it is still dark
Notice that resurrection happens while it is still dark, Though at first no one sees iteven now in the dark corners of war and denial and despairthere are soft risen footfalls outside the places where death has been laid,
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Holy Week Inhabiting
We are touched by the same oil Inhale the same fragrance. Your life, my life, Your death, my death.
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