Alfred Lord Tennyson – Jackson Community Church

New Years 2021: Poetry and song for the coming year.

Music: Better Days by Goo Goo Dolls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kHleNYIDc&feature=youtu.be Be the Change by Britt Nicole: https://youtu.be/mHguyidMS50 A Long December by Counting Crows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrsSbjcKCBg New Year by Pentatonix: https://youtu.be/ZsJt7j96n0s Next Year by Foo Fighters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1qQuSuQaHY New Year’s Day by Bon Jovi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i5fBY3a5Q0 What Are You Doing New Years Eve by Ella Fitzgerald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFdfzNMV52Q Lets Keep Falling In […]

Reflections on locked room mysteries and love that doesn’t knock: themes from John 20

What barriers stand between you and Love? Can you really keep out a love that is transformative, or will it pass through your closed door and locked heart, somehow? Yet doubt and questions have their place … they sometimes help open the way. Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off;he is […]

Reflections on journeys and the New Year

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.― Matsuo Bashô Choices— Tess GallagherI go to the mountain sideof the house to cut saplings,and clear a view to snowon the mountain. But when I look up,saw in hand, I see a nest clutched inthe uppermost branches.I don’t cut that one.I don’t cut the others […]