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Lenten Reflection Day 39 (April 1): DELIVERANCE (Psalm 40:5-10).

SONG: Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell: Dueling Banjos (Deliverance 1972): https://youtu.be/p8t8uqEf6_A POEM: Linda Hogan: The History of Red (excerpt): … A wildness / swam inside our mothers, desire through closed eyes, a new child / wearing the red, wet mask of birth, delivered into this land / already wounded, stolen and burned / beyond reckoning. […]

Lenten Reflection Day 38 (Mar 31): LAW (Psalm 40:5-10).

SONG: This Side of the Law by Johnny Cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GWe4sOIEeY&feature=youtu.be POEM: Albert Goldbarth: Laws of the Universe (excerpt): … Well, we could: if the laws of the universe changed. It’s only the Earth that makes us so heavy. It’s only our lives that keep our lives / from floating off into the nothing. QUOTE:  Herman […]

Lenten Reflection Day 37 (Mar 30): WRITTEN (Psalm 40:5-10).

SONG: Written in the Stars by Tinie Tempah ft Eric Turner: https://youtu.be/YgFyi74DVjc POEM:Beatriz Miralles de Imperial, translated by Layla Benitez-James: “I write until my face is erased” –  I write until my face is erased / only who I am no longer / can tell me SECOND POEM:Nabina Das: Anima Writes a Letter Home (excerpt): […]

Lenten Reflection Day 36 (Mar 29): HERE I AM (Psalm 40:5-10).

SONG: Here I Am by Air Supply: https://youtu.be/B6rXBLRo_GU POEM:Rumi: Here I Am (excerpt):  … In the silence surrounding every call of ‘Allah’Waits a thousand replies of ‘Here I am.’ QUOTE: Leo Tolstoy: Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting […]

Lenten Reflection Day 35 (Mar 28): SACRIFICE (Psalm 40:5-10).

SONG: Sacrifice by Elton John: https://youtu.be/NrLkTZrPZA4 POEM:Muriel Rukeyser: The Book of the Dead: The Dam (excerpt):  … All power is saved, having no end.  Rises / in the green season, in the sudden season / the white the budded /  and the lost… learning its power, conquering boundaries, able to rise blind in revolts of […]

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