Easter

Holy Week and Easter: Prayers on the Breath

April 1, 2023
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May you risk the road and be graced by what you haven’t planned ~ I am travelling away from home during these marked days.  I will be travelling to enter the delightful, loving chaos that days with children and grandchildren offer.  I’ve chosen this travelling gratefully, but it opens questions in me.

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While it is still dark

April 17, 2022
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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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Easter Hymn

March 31, 2018
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Jesus Christ is risen today, Hallelujah! Love’s bright glory now at play, Hallelujah! In this world and in our hearts, Hallelujah! Re-creating, healing hurts, Hallelujah! Jesus Christ the vivid One, Hallelujah! Our humanity has spun, Hallelujah! Spindled round his life we shine, Hallelujah! Threads through all creation twined, Hallelujah! Jesus Christ the uncontained, Hallelujah! Walks…

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Resurrection Riff

April 16, 2017
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Resurrection –  say it softly, as one must after the softening notes go wherever notes go when they no longer sound. The day has gone by for me carrying the Word and the cello’s intensity Resurrection It doesn’t come from nothing It has a past.

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Rising

September 10, 2016
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Today doesn’t look like this for me.  There is no great glory caught between the cupped hands of cloud and mountain.  Still, even resistant, this body recognizes those wisps rising from something hidden;  those  breaths warmly exhaled in this day’s blue moment, sighing a soft,  unavoidable grace in the sky of my heart. Image: Grand…

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A Contemplative Eastertide

April 9, 2016
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  O Spirit O Silence O Risen One O Gate O Garden O Press of the Grass O Call O Healer O Love Gone Before Us O Breath O Life O Catcher of Tears O Spirit O Silence O Risen One Alleluia!

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Softly

March 24, 2014
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Easter    John 20: 1 -18 You know how, when the sun softly falls across your page as you read Or, on your face, as you wake in a day that is unclaimed by all your plans, or when it settles on the wall in the late afternoon, making art of the shadows When that…

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