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Lenten Reflection Day 47 – EASTER (April 9): SPRING FORTH (Isaiah 42:1-9).

POEM: Joyce Sidman: The Season’s Campaign (excerpt): We burst forth … SONG: Ezinma: Vivaldi Springs Forth: https://youtu.be/B84U_5C-ho0 QUOTE:  Juan Mascaro: The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let them spring forth from […]

Easter poems, songs, and commentary

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.I want to be light and frolicsome.I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,as though I had wings.― Mary Oliver Here Comes the Sun— The Beatles lyrics by George HarrisonHere comes the sun (doo doo doo doo)Here comes the sun, and I sayIt’s all […]

Holy Saturday Meditations

Spring — Mary Oliver And here is the serpent again.Dragging himself out from his nest of darkness,His cave under the black rocks,His winter-death.He loops around the bunches of rising grass,Looking for the sun. Well, who doesn’t want the sun after the long winter?I step aside,He feels the air with his soft tongue,Around the bones of his body […]

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