Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body
Somehow I sense that this might this connect with yesterday’s post?! The Journey by Mary Oliver One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice –though the whole housebegan to trembleand
Show Me, Dear Christ by John Donne Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear. What! is it she which on the other shore Goes richly painted? or which, robb’d and tore, Laments and mourns in Germany and
Hallelujah! Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and to those in the tomb Christ is giving life. Spring Song by Lucille Clifton the green of Jesus is breaking the ground and the sweet smell of
A Psalm of Life WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And
“Solitude“ by dwight j. friesen The text reads: “For the secret of a man’s being is not only to live . . . but to live for something definite.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Totally like whatever, you know? by Taylor Mali In case you hadn’t noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know what you’re talking about? Or believe strongly in what you’re saying? Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you
Otherwise By Jane Kenyon I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood.
Though I’m by no means a Korn groupie, I found it interesting when Mtv reported that one of the founding members of the band has left to start his own thing. According to Korn’s website, guitarist, Brian Welch, “has chosen Jesus Christ
If you haven’t already heard this George Dubya Mix I highly recommend it to you; it is powerful. O, the irony of hearing George Bush singing U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” It’s a mix of a few George W. parody tracks from
I am looking for the book and page number – in the original source – where I can find the following quotes. Somehow I lost them. Usually I do a pretty good job of recording my readings and my citations; I
Untitled Too by Lynette Friesen She stood on the side of the road In a dress of cut cardboard. She looked a bit in need of a bath and a warm cozy fire, But then so did I. An empty
This is one of the more powerful stories of the Hebrew bible. If you haven’t read it in a while submit yourself to it allowing it to become part of you. Judges 19 and 20 Last night, Lynette, Pascal and
The Third Body by Robert Bly A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not long At this moment to be older, or younger, or born In any other nation, or any other time,
Tonight I’ve been invited to offer a prayer for peace from my spiritual tradition at this year’s multi-faith peace walk around Green Lake. Interfaith Community Sanctuary is organizing the event which has seen hundreds of people from a wide array
Sea of Faith by John Brehm (In The Southern Review) Once when I was teaching “Dover Beach” to a class of freshmen, a young woman raised her hand and said, “I’m confused about this ‘Sea of Faith.'” “Well,” I said,
Here’s a brief conversation between Paul Ray and Peter Moore titled “The Cultural Creatives: We Are Everywhere.” I think many of us, after encountering Paul’s book, “The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World” felt deep resonance,
Over the last few years it has been very cool to watch evangelical Christians discover or rediscover the wonder and power of film. “Narrative Theologians” like Stanley Hauerwas, Hans Frei, et. al. deserve our thanks. Cornerstone’s Flickerings, and the Damah
While on Andrew Jones‘ site the other day I was introduced to the concept of guest maps. The thought of slowly getting a sense of where people are encountering my little site is kinda cool, so I set one up. If
Anthony Hecht who was one of America’s great poets, passed away this week. Here is one of his many poems, click here to hear him read it. Chorus from Oedipus at Colonus by Anthony Hecht What is unwisdom but the
God Says Yes To Me by Kaylin Haught I asked God if it was okay to be melodramaticand she said yesI asked her if it was okay to be shortand she said it sure isI asked her if I could
Lynette and I use New Years day as a reminder to sit down and have a conversation regarding who we sense ourselves becoming. We used set goals but we rarely do rather rather our conversations attempt to articulate trajectory; give
but God by Dwight J. Friesen I walked I ran I put my headphones on I turned up the noise I flipped the channels I changed lanes I turned the page I sampled a taste I couldn’t sit still I
The other day I was watching a rerun of “The Simpsons” – such a great show. It was an episode from the first season. What stood out to me was that in the first season the writers didn’t know the
Last night Lynette and I watched a wonderfully hopeful documentary entitled, “What I Want My Words to Do to You.” Inmates at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women try to determine whether redemption is really possible after committing a crime
I have a three year-old at home, so I don’t go to movies like I used to, in fact without Netflix my life would have a film shaped void. So “In America” arrived and I must say, I loved it.
