Lenten Reflection Day 31 (Mar 24): OVERFLOW (Psalm 23).
SONG: Living in the Overflow ft. Charity Gayle and Joshua Sherman: hhttps://youtu.be/lmAfEI-Ibgc
POEM: Catherine Bowman: Story of a Tree (excerpt): All around us the underground world overflows with love. Season after season you return, sap rising up from your roots, unfinished, always becoming. I defended against love / for as long as I could / until I couldn’t.
QUOTE: Victor Hugo: Gradually, they began to talk. Overflow succeeded to silence, which is fullness.
Lenten Reflection Day 30 (Mar 23): PREPARE (Psalm 23).
SONG: Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord from Godspell
POEM: Edwin Markham: Preparedness: For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear— When you are the hammer, strike.
QUOTE: Douglas Adams: Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Lenten Reflection Day 29 (Mar 22): COMFORT (Psalm 23).
SONG: Comfort Song by Laura Woodley Osman
POEM: Joy Ladin: Comfort Animal (excerpt): … You want to cry? Cry about that. Who do you think created / the animals to whom you turn for comfort, dogs, miniature horses, monkeys, ferrets, hungers you know how to feed, fears you know how to quiet? I form them, fur them, it’s my warmth radiating from their bodies, my love that answers / the love you lavish upon them. Your deserts and desolations are highways I travel, smoothing your broken places, arranging stars and constellations / to light your wilderness. Sometimes I play the shepherd; sometimes I play the lamb …
QUOTE: Veronica Roth: Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
Lenten Reflection Day 28 (Mar 21): FEAR (Psalm 23).
SONG: Fear Is a Liar by Zach Williams
POEM: Evelyn Scott: Fear (excerpt): My soul leaps up at a sound. What is the question that I cannot answer, that must be answered?
QUOTE: Rudyard Kipling: Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Lenten Reflection Day 27 (Mar 20): WANT (Psalm 23).
SONG: I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner
POEM: Robert Bly: Wanting Sumptuous Heavens (excerpt): Only we, with our opposable thumbs, want / Heaven to be, and God to come, again. / There is no end to our grumbling; we want / Comfortable earth and sumptuous Heaven.
QUOTE: George Orwell: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.