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Zero Circle Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will...

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Wow, this is so beautiful. Blessed Advent, friends. O anitphon for...

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Anniversary Prayer

Sovereign, Creator, Mother and Father of life: With thanks beyond our ability to speak, with...

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From the Kenyan-born, Somali poet, Warsan Shire. no one leaves home unless home is the...

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Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be...

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“When we’re told we’ll never understand” Someone says a drug-related incident, someone says he was...

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Thirst Mary Oliver Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do...

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February 24, 2015

“Living Lent”

Reposting this beautiful reflection for Lent. It was written by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton in her...

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Sonnets To Orpheus, Part Two, XII By Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Anita Barrows and...

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Accepting This Yes, it is true. I confess, I have thought great thoughts, and sung...

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Resolution Fatigue

Here's a little poem for those of us suffering from New Year's Resolution Fatigue (I...

January 12, 2014

Being a Christian: A Meditation for the Deacons

Calvary DC Deacon Chair 2014, Rachel Johnson, shared the following meditation during communion with the...

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In the dormancy of Lent we can take our cue from fallow fields, lying vacant...

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"Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the...

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Maybe Sweet Jesus, talking his melancholy madness, stood up in the boat ...

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Zero Circle by: Rumi (Version by Coleman Barks) Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes...

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They say the wheel was inventedand fire was discovered. When you sit in the circleand rub...

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Trying to Be Thoughtful in the First Brights of Dawn I am thinking, or trying...

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The Old Poets of China Wherever I am,...

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for the week of Epiphany... Hello, sun in my face.Hello, you who made the morningand...

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We ended yoga class and Wednesday Night Words discussion on Luke 24 and vocation with...

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Kindness Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in...

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What to Remember When WakingDavid WhyteIn that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,...

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Roses, Late Summer What happens to the leaves after they turn red and golden and...

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A poem from Sufi mystic Hafiz this morning: With That Moon Language Admit something:Everyone you see,...

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I think I am going to try something new around here. One of my favorite...

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The Longest Night

The weather outside today is absolutely frigid. Today's cold spell follows a few weeks of...

December 11, 2008

The Gift of a Life

Recently we said goodbye to our friend and colleague, Amparo Palacios, who died November 14....

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October 05, 2008

Somehow I came to know about a poet called Gypsee Yo, who lives in Atlanta. ...

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