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Lenten Reflection Day 21 (Mar 14): DRINK   (from John 4:5-42).

SONG: Drink Water by The FeelBetterMinnesota: https://youtu.be/3MZK5eRv7L0 POEM: Laura Cronk: Thirst (excerpt): I’m pouring water from cup to cup. This is the water we are meant to drink with the other animals. There are daffodils by the water, a road leading from the water to the shining crown of the sun. QUOTE: Rumi: So come! […]

Lenten Reflection Day 20 (Mar 13): ASK  (from John 4:5-42).

SONG: Ask by The Smiths: https://youtu.be/zoo9Vu1a9bU POEM: Esther Berlin: I Hope to God Yoy Will Not Ask (excerpt): I hope to God you will not ask Me or my People to send Postcard greetings… Yes, we may share the same sun setting But the in-between hours are hollow The People fill the void with prayers […]

Lenten Reflection Day 19 (Mar 12): DRAW WATER  (from John 4:5-42).

SONG: Draw Me a Bucket of Water by Bessie Jones: https://youtu.be/8bWCRraSixo POEM: Edith Wharton: The Mortal Lease (excerpt): Because our kiss is as the moon to draw The mounting waters of that red-lit sea That circles brain with sense, and bids us be The playthings of an elemental law, Shall we forego the deeper touch […]

Lenten Reflection Day 18 (Mar 11): TIME (from Psalm 121).

SONG: Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper: https://youtu.be/VdQY7BusJNU POEM: John Milton: On Time (excerpt): Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace; And glut thy self with what thy womb devours, Which is no more then what is false and […]

Lenten Reflection Day 17 (Mar 10): GOING OUT and COMING IN  (from Psalm 121).

SONG: Come and Go by Juice WRLD & Marshmello (caution: some explicit lyrics): https://youtu.be/Dxm3cHrKcbA POEM: Dana Levin: You Will Never Get Death / Out of your System (excerpt): How old is the earth? I asked my machine, and it said: Five great extinctions, one in process, four and a half billion years. It has always […]

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