Lent & Easter

Lenten Reflection Day 41 (April 3): UPHOLD (Isaiah 42:1-9).

ONG: The Wynans: Uphold Me: https://youtu.be/xkHfGzAcD6E POEM: Rebecca Hazelton: Vow (excerpt): …  When they looked at their options / it seemed there weren’t really that many / after all. They swore to uphold the bonds / and the principles … QUOTE:  Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: People who have a religion should[…]

Lenten Reflection Day 40 (April 2): CHOSEN (Isaiah 42:1-9).

SONG: Rytikal: Chosen: https://youtu.be/thNWIM5Oe6w POEM: Uche Nduka: Untitled [When Shall Your Wounds] (excerpt): …  daily your kingdom squeaks / and leaps to the starlight / it wants all of you / you of all and the music … you are the one the music / has chosen and whom strings call / twilight moans behind[…]

Lenten Reflection Day 39 (April 1): DELIVERANCE (Psalm 40:5-10).

SONG: Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell: Dueling Banjos (Deliverance 1972): https://youtu.be/p8t8uqEf6_A POEM: Linda Hogan: The History of Red (excerpt): … A wildness / swam inside our mothers, desire through closed eyes, a new child / wearing the red, wet mask of birth, delivered into this land / already wounded, stolen and burned / beyond reckoning.[…]

Lenten Reflection Day 38 (Mar 31): LAW (Psalm 40:5-10).

SONG: This Side of the Law by Johnny Cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GWe4sOIEeY&feature=youtu.be POEM: Albert Goldbarth: Laws of the Universe (excerpt): … Well, we could: if the laws of the universe changed. It’s only the Earth that makes us so heavy. It’s only our lives that keep our lives / from floating off into the nothing. QUOTE:  Herman[…]

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