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Word for DAY 1 (Ash Wednesday) of Lent: WASTED AWAY. This phrase comes from Psalm 32: 1-5, from the Narrative Lectionary associated with the first day of Lent. Throughout Lent, we will post words from each week’s scripture and music videos that address the themes raised by those phrases (lifted from the context of the […]
SONG: Heavy On Me by Whiskey Myers: https://youtu.be/82hlHPy4Oc8 POEM: William Shakespeare: Sonnet 50 (excerpt): How heavy do I journey on the way, When what I seek, my weary travel’s end … QUOTE: W.B. Yeats: And heavy mortal hopes that toil and pass …
SONG: You Are My Hiding Place by Selah: https://youtu.be/uUx2WcC9JKo POEM: Olga Orozco: My most beautiful hiding places, places that best fit my soul’s deepest colors, are made of all that others forgot. QUOTE: Zora Neale Hurston: Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
SONG: Confession by Florida Georgia Line: https://youtu.be/vwkYxPpmEPE POEM: Abraham Cowley: Writeen in Lemon Juice (excerpt): Go then, but reverently go, And, since thou needs must sin, confess it too: Confess ‘t, and with humility … QUOTE: Ralph Waldo Emerson: People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a […]
SONG: Acknowledge Me by Prince: https://youtu.be/zrgP_4r54_I POEM: Jen Tynes: After Tagging the Dust Your Body Is Made Of (excerpt): … Electricity changes, there is no body to acknowledge through touch, I fling forward past my desires … QUOTE: Brene Brown: Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love […]