Lent & Easter – Page 12 – Jackson Community Church

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

By jacksonnhccPosted on March 10, 2023Posted in Calendar, Home, Lent & Easter, Weekly MeditationsTagged daily devotiona;, Dana Levin, Juice WORLD Marshmello, lent, Neil Gaiman

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 been very busy on Earth: so much coming and going! The terror and the hope ribboning through that.

QUOTE: Neil Gaiman: I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend … I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust.

Lenten Reflection Day 16 (Mar 9): HEAVEN and EARTH (from Psalm 121).

By jacksonnhccPosted on March 9, 2023Posted in Calendar, Home, Lent & Easter, Weekly MeditationsTagged daily devotional, heaven and earth, lent, May Swenson, Psalm 121, Stars Go Dim, William K Purley

SONG: Heaven on Earth by Stars Go Dim: https://youtu.be/YhCzzQQNnLA

POEM: May Swenson: Earth Your Dancing Place (excerpt): Take earth for your own large room and the floor of the earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

QUOTE: William K Purkey: You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.

Lenten Reflection Day 15 (Mar 8): LIFE (from Psalm 121).

By jacksonnhccPosted on March 8, 2023Posted in Calendar, Home, Lent & Easter, Weekly MeditationsTagged Carrie Law Morgan Figgs, daily devotional, lent, life, Nicholas Sparks, OneRepublic, Psalm 121

SONG: Good Life by OneRepublic: https://youtu.be/fuI0bEdoF30

POEM: Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: Life (excerpt): 1. A moment of pleasure, An hour of pain, A day of sunshine, A week of rain, A fortnight of peace, A month of strife, These taken together Make up life. 2. One real friend To a dozen foes, Two open gates, ’Gainst twenty that’s closed, Prosperity’s chair, Then adversity’s knife; These my friends Make up life.

QUOTE: Nicholas Sparks: I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.