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Easter Saturday – Messenger
Today’s poem from Education for Justice is by Mary Oliver. Messenger My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.… Continue Reading “Easter Saturday – Messenger”
Easter Thursday- What to Remember When Waking
Today’s Easter Poem is by one of my favorite poets, David Whyte. I heard him recently at the Religious Education Congress in Southern California. It is wonderful just to hear him recite poetry. What a wonderful experience! What to Remember When Waking In that… Continue Reading “Easter Thursday- What to Remember When Waking”
Easter Wednesday – What Is Hope?
Today’s Easter poem from Education for Justice is by the Brazilian Theologian Rubem Alves. What Is Hope? What is hope? It is a presentiment that imagination is more real and reality less real than it looks. It is a hunch that the overwhelming brutality… Continue Reading “Easter Wednesday – What Is Hope?”
Easter Tuesday – A Better Resurrection
Today’s Poem from Education for Justice is by Christina Rosetti. A Better Resurrection I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb’d too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell… Continue Reading “Easter Tuesday – A Better Resurrection”
Easter Monday – When Death Comes
Today’s Easter poem from Education for Justice is by a favorite poet of many: Mary Oliver. When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and… Continue Reading “Easter Monday – When Death Comes”
Happy Easter! The Death of Death
Happy Easter to You!! I have received so many grateful comments for the poems shared here during the Season of Lent. Easter is such a glorious season. So it would be a shame to stop the poetry now! The site, Education for Justice, has… Continue Reading “Happy Easter! The Death of Death”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense (iPhoneography)
We imagine how this tulip will appear tomorrow. And yet we appreciate it’s beauty today. We live midst the tension of the “already and not yet”. This is especially true during the Lenten Season as we look forward to Easter. This reminds us to… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense (iPhoneography)”
Ascension Thursday
Here in the U.S. we celebrate the Feast of the Ascension on Sunday. Nonetheless, I still see Thursday listed as an option on the USCCB website, and our Psalters still show the Ascension as a Thursday feast. So I say, let’s celebrate twice! It’s… Continue Reading “Ascension Thursday”
Hope in the Face of . . . Seeming Doom
The message of the Gospel is a message of Resurrection – of Easter. It does not deny darkness. It does not seek to cover-up Good Friday. We are always pointed toward Hope – toward Easter. In the words of the beloved Pope John the… Continue Reading “Hope in the Face of . . . Seeming Doom”
We Continue to Give Thanks
From Psalm 118 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior. The joyful shout of victory in the tents of the just.
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