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.
Lenten Reflection Day 8 (Mar 1): ACKNOWLEDGE (from Psalm 32).
SONG: Acknowledge Me by Prince: https://youtu.be/zrgP_4r54_I
POEM: Jen Tynes: After Tagging the Dust Your Body Is Made Of (excerpt): … Electricity changes, there is no body to acknowledge through touch, I fling forward past my desires …
QUOTE: Brene Brown: Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed …
Lenten Reflection Day 7 (Feb 28): FORGIVEN (from Psalm 32).
SONG: Pray for Forgiveness by Alicia Keyes: https://youtu.be/IvdYcpGw9Oo
POEM: Jane Hirshfield: The Weighing (excerpt): The heart’s reasons seen clearly, even the hardest will carry its whip-marks and sadness and must be forgiven.
QUOTE: Veronica Roth: Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
Lenten Reflection Day 6 (Feb 27): TRANSGRESSION (from Psalm 32).
SONG: Transgression by Kodak Black: https://youtu.be/iMy1o0XUWg8
POEM: William Shakespeare: Sonnet 120 (excerpt) … And for that sorrow which I then did feel Needs must I under my transgression bow …
QUOTE: Leo Buscaglia: I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don’t have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.
Lenten Reflection Day 5 (Feb 26): MERCIFUL (from Joel 2:12-17).
SONG: Mercy by Shawn Mendes: https://youtu.be/KkGVmN68ByU
QUOTE: Maya Angelou: Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
POEM: Jose Antonio Rodriguez: Mercy (excerpt) … if you find me here
Erecting the same elements With these meager tools, Wanting even now to give them life, That they may look upon me with mercy. I’ve been a prophet. I’ve been a fool.