Weekly Meditations

Lenten Reflection Day 14 (Mar 7): KEEP YOU  (from Psalm 121).

SONG: Keep You Mine by NOTD, Shy Martin: https://youtu.be/fuI0bEdoF30 POEM: Joy Harjo: For Keeps (excerpt): … We know ourselves to be part of mystery. It is unspeakable. It is everlasting. It is for keeps. QUOTE: Coco Ginger: Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I[…]

Lenten Reflection Day 13 (Mar 6): HELP  (from Psalm 121).

Lenten Reflection Day 13 (Mar 6): HELP  (from Psalm 121). SONG: Help! by The Beatles: https://youtu.be/2Q_ZzBGPdqE POEM: Ashanti Files: Martyr (excerpt): I don’t want to be a martyr, But I see you calling for my help. QUOTE: Carl Sagan: In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from[…]

Meditations on the Lord’s Prayer

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and … almost involuntary in my life … And when I talk about prayer, I mean really … what Rumi says in that wonderful line, “there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground”. — Mary Oliver Do not pray for[…]

Day 12 of 12 Days of Christmas: Twelve drummers drumming

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it’s not really a sprint. – Neil Peart Drums all have their own particulars – each drum has a place where they sound the best – where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn’t too loose or too tight, mainly so you[…]

Day 11 of 12 Days of Christmas: Eleven pipers piping

But he heard high up in the airA piper piping away,And never was piping so sad,And never was piping so gay.― William Butler Yeats SONGS about PIPERS: OTHER SONGS with SUMILAR THEMES — Wikipedia Scotland A similar cumulative verse from Scotland, “The Yule Days”, has been likened to “The Twelve Days of Christmas” in the[…]

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