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SONG: Mercy by Shawn Mendes: https://youtu.be/KkGVmN68ByU QUOTE: Maya Angelou: Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. POEM: Jose Antonio Rodriguez: Mercy (excerpt) … if you find me hereErecting the same elements With these meager tools, Wanting even now to give them life, That […]
SONG: Rend Your Heart by MNaria Gilpin: https://youtu.be/srhuEphj9Y0 POEM: HD (Hilda Doolittle): Garden (excerpt). II. O wind, rend open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters. Fruit cannot drop through this thick air— fruit cannot fall into heat that presses up and blunts the points of pears and rounds the grapes. Cut […]
5pm • ZOOM Link and password required. Option: Bring your adult beverage and your curiosity for a conversation about our sacred texts. For more information about this study series: Podcast from BibleProject about the Lord’s Prayer: https://bibleproject.com/podcast/matthew-p10-lords-prayer/ The text is provided below Matthew 6:13 (NRSVUE)And do not bring us to the time of trial,[b] but […]
SONG: Fasting Song by James Ironshell: https://youtu.be/TLcqpegeI5o POEM: Jorie Graham: Fast (excerpt). Fast or starve. Too much. Or not enough. Or. Nothing else? QUOTE: Terry Pratchett: Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil … prayer, fasting, good works and so on.
SONG: Return to Innocence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08 POEM: The Return (excerpt) by Ezra Pound. … See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back; These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,” inviolable. QUOTE: JRR Tolkien: I sit beside the fire and think of […]
