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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 […]
John 11:44 – Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi SONGS about FREEDOM & LIBERATION: Fierce Blessing — Jan Richardson Believe me when I saythere is nothingthis blessing […]
SONG: You Restore by CRC Music: https://youtu.be/HmmOwxUjIjc POEM: Robert Penn Warren: Mortal Limit (excerpt): It knows it will accept the mortal limit, And swing into the great circular downwardness that will restore The breath of earth? QUOTE: Sam Levenson: We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings […]
Songs by Irish performers, bands, and musicians or songs about Ireland: ST PATRICK’S PROTECTION PRAYER Full text may be found here: https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/greenford/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2020/03/St-Patricks-Breastplate.pdf Abbreviated version: St Patrick’s Breastplate or The Lorica I arise todayThrough the strength of heaven;Light of the sun,Splendor of fire,Speed of lightning,Swiftness of the wind,Depth of the sea,Stability of the earth,Firmness of the rock. I arise […]
SONG: All Who Are Thirsty by Vineyard Music: https://youtu.be/K71EYID22l4 POEM: Jane Hirshfield: A Well Runs Out of Thirst (excerpt): A well runs out of thirst the way time runs out of a week, the way a country runs out of its alphabet or a tree runs out of its height … A person comes into […]
