EASTER SUNDAY, April 9
Easter Weekend with JCC and around town SUN, April 9
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[…]
Lenten Reflection Day 46 (April 8): COME TO PASS (Isaiah 42:1-9).
SONG: The Chant: Come To Pass: https://youtu.be/kc6dEx9cgR0 POEM: Rachel Hadas: Pass It On III (excerpt): … Death makes life shine … QUOTE: Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage,[…]
Lenten Reflection Day 45 (April 6): WILL NOT BREAK (Isaiah 42:1-9).
SONG: Kevin Rudolf ft Lil Wayne: I Will Not Break: https://youtu.be/mNcSwvo007s POEM: Mark Kirschen: Monet (excerpt): Sunlight will not break us—Rather / We move illumined / Return daily…To save what has been hammered / By the sun / Most of it unmapped, still / Uncharted… QUOTE: Bob Marley: …he will give you a part of[…]
Sabbath II, 1988 — Wendell BerryIt is the destruction of the worldin our own livesthat drives us half insane, and more than half.To destroy that which we were givenin trust: how will we bear it?It is our own bodies that we giveto be broken,our bodies existing before and after usin clod and cloud, worm and[…]