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Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 “When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver When death comeslike the hungry bear in autumn;when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;when death comeslike the measle-pox when death comeslike an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step throughContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – Feb. 24th”

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 “For Courage” by John O’Donohue When the light around lessensAnd your thoughts darken untilYour body feels fear turnCold as a stone inside, When you find yourself bereftOf any belief in yourselfAnd all you unknowinglyLeaned on has fallen, When one voice commandsYour whole heart,And it is raven dark, Steady yourself and seeThatContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – Feb. 23rd”

Monday, February 22nd, 2021 “A new birth” by Steve Garnaas-Holmes God called Abram to leave the familiar and go, go on a road he would make by going, to a place he would know by finding.Jesus led Nicodemus to the threshold of a birth, a newness he could only know by going through it.Only what’sContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – Feb. 22nd”

Sunday, February 21st, 2021 (1st Sunday in Lent) “Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale” by Dan AlbergottiFrom The Boatlands, 2008 Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days.Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fireswith the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals.Call old friends, andContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – Feb. 21st”

Saturday, February 20th, 2021 “Go to the Limits of Your Longing” by Rainer Maria Rilke God speaks to each of us as he makes us,then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall,go to the limits of your longing.Embody me. Flare upContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – Feb. 20th”

Friday, February 19th, 2021 The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, andContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – Feb. 19th”

Thursday, February 18th, 2021 Psalm 42 (NIV version) 1As the deer pants for streams of water,so my soul pants for you, my God.2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.When can I go and meet with God?3My tears have been my foodday and night,while people say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”4TheseContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – Feb. 18th”

Wednesday, February 17th, 2021 “Blessing the Dust” – A Blessing for Ash Wednesday by Jan Richardson All those daysyou felt like dust,like dirt,as if all you had to dowas turn your facetoward the windand be scatteredto the four corners or swept awayby the smallest breathas insubstantial – did you not knowwhat the Holy Onecan doContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – Feb. 17th”