Lenten Reflection Day 16 (Mar 9): HEAVEN and EARTH (from Psalm 121).
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).
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.
Lenten Reflection Day 11 (Mar 4): HEAVY UPON ME (from Psalm 32).
SONG: Heavy On Me by Whiskey Myers: https://youtu.be/82hlHPy4Oc8
POEM: William Shakespeare: Sonnet 50 (excerpt): How heavy do I journey on the way, When what I seek, my weary travel’s end …
QUOTE: W.B. Yeats: And heavy mortal hopes that toil and pass …
Lenten Reflection Day 10 (Mar 3): HIDING PLACE (from Psalm 32).
SONG: You Are My Hiding Place by Selah: https://youtu.be/uUx2WcC9JKo
POEM: Olga Orozco: My most beautiful hiding places, places that best fit my soul’s deepest colors, are made of all that others forgot.
QUOTE: Zora Neale Hurston: Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Lenten Reflection Day 9 (Mar 2): CONFESS (from Psalm 32).
SONG: Confession by Florida Georgia Line: https://youtu.be/vwkYxPpmEPE
POEM: Abraham Cowley: Writeen in Lemon Juice (excerpt): Go then, but reverently go, And, since thou needs must sin, confess it too: Confess 't, and with humility …
QUOTE: Ralph Waldo Emerson: People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.