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[…]
MAUNDY THURS, April 6 – EASTER SUNDAY, April 9
HOLY WEEK with JCC and around town MAUNDY THURSDAY, April 6 HOLY FRIDAY, April 7 EASTER SUNDAY, April 9
Lenten Reflection Day 44 (April 6): EARTH (Isaiah 42:1-9).
SONG: Michael Jackson: Earth: https://youtu.be/XAi3VTSdTxU POEM: Elaine Equi: Earth (excerpt): A long time we were separate, O Earth, but now you have returned to me. SONG: Michael Jackson: Earth: QUOTE: CS Lewis: Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing.[…]
Lenten Reflection Day 43 (April 5): JUSTICE (Isaiah 42:1-9).
SONG: IJM Ghana: Spirit Song: https://youtu.be/civgUOommC8 POEM: Rudyard Kipling: Justice (excerpt): Before we loose the word / That bids new worlds to birth, Needs must we loosen first the sword / Of Justice upon earth; Or else all else is vain / Since life on earth began, And the spent world sinks back again /[…]
Lenten Reflection Day 42 (April 4): SPIRIT (Isaiah 42:1-9).
SONG: Beyonce from Disney’s Lion King: Spirit Song: https://youtu.be/civgUOommC8 POEM: Wendell Berry: A Spiritual Journey: And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be[…]