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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
SONG: Jesus Is Coming Back by Jordan Feliz: https://youtu.be/pPo4wuQolTQ POEM: Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Coming (excerpt): Because the time is ripe, the age is ready, Because the world her woman’s help demands, Out of the long subjection and seclusion, Come to our field of warfare and confusion, The mother’s heart and hands. QUOTE: Winston Churchill: To […]