Lenten Reflection Day 47 – EASTER (April 9): SPRING FORTH (Isaiah 42:1-9).
POEM: Joyce Sidman: The Season’s Campaign (excerpt): We burst forth …
SONG: Ezinma: Vivaldi Springs Forth: https://youtu.be/B84U_5C-ho0
QUOTE: Juan Mascaro: The thought manifests the word; The word manifests the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let them spring forth from love Born out of compassion for all beings. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become…
Lenten Reflection Day 17 (Mar 10): GOING OUT and COMING IN (from Psalm 121).
SONG: Come and Go by Juice WRLD & Marshmello (caution: some explicit lyrics): https://youtu.be/Dxm3cHrKcbA
POEM: Dana Levin: You Will Never Get Death / Out of your System (excerpt): How old is the earth? I asked my machine, and it said: Five great extinctions, one in process, four and a half billion years. It has always been very busy on Earth: so much coming and going! The terror and the hope ribboning through that.
QUOTE: Neil Gaiman: I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend … I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust.