Lenten Reflection Day 31 (Mar 24): OVERFLOW (Psalm 23).
SONG: Living in the Overflow ft. Charity Gayle and Joshua Sherman: hhttps://youtu.be/lmAfEI-Ibgc
POEM: Catherine Bowman: Story of a Tree (excerpt): All around us the underground world overflows with love. Season after season you return, sap rising up from your roots, unfinished, always becoming. I defended against love / for as long as I could / until I couldn’t.
QUOTE: Victor Hugo: Gradually, they began to talk. Overflow succeeded to silence, which is fullness.
Lenten Reflection Day 30 (Mar 23): PREPARE (Psalm 23).
SONG: Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord from Godspell
POEM: Edwin Markham: Preparedness: For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear— When you are the hammer, strike.
QUOTE: Douglas Adams: Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Lenten Reflection Day 29 (Mar 22): COMFORT (Psalm 23).
SONG: Comfort Song by Laura Woodley Osman
POEM: Joy Ladin: Comfort Animal (excerpt): … You want to cry? Cry about that. Who do you think created / the animals to whom you turn for comfort, dogs, miniature horses, monkeys, ferrets, hungers you know how to feed, fears you know how to quiet? I form them, fur them, it’s my warmth radiating from their bodies, my love that answers / the love you lavish upon them. Your deserts and desolations are highways I travel, smoothing your broken places, arranging stars and constellations / to light your wilderness. Sometimes I play the shepherd; sometimes I play the lamb …
QUOTE: Veronica Roth: Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
Lenten Reflection Day 26 (Mar 19): RESTORE (Psalm 23).
SONG: You Restore by CRC Music: https://youtu.be/HmmOwxUjIjc
POEM: Robert Penn Warren: Mortal Limit (excerpt): It knows it will accept the mortal limit, And swing into the great circular downwardness that will restore The breath of earth?
QUOTE: Sam Levenson: We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody.
Lenten Reflection Day 25 (Mar 18): THIRST (from John 4:5-42).
SONG: All Who Are Thirsty by Vineyard Music: https://youtu.be/K71EYID22l4
POEM: Jane Hirshfield: A Well Runs Out of Thirst (excerpt): A well runs out of thirst the way time runs out of a week, the way a country runs out of its alphabet or a tree runs out of its height … A person comes into the kitchen to dry the hands, the face, to stand on the lip of a question.
QUOTE: Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr.: Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.