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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Three Days- A Poem
Three days has my master been gone Three days since those he loved scattered Three days since receiving his pierced and battered body One final gift from the hands of our oppressors Three days of mourning and preparations Three days … Continue reading
Daddy’s Girl
May dolphins and dragons dance through your dreams And faeries, pixies and sprites inhabit your imagination Let the magic linger and play in the springtime of your life Sing and dance and play and let the world look on in … Continue reading
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Stay Here and Keep Watch-A Poetic Meditation for Good Friday
Stay here for just a moment and keep watch in the garden. Where love is betrayed and where friends are spared Where a beloved one brings soldiers and temple police Where love endures and does not shirk away from the … Continue reading
Golgotha
Alone, life is over, Those whom I ask to wait for me enter into sleep A sleep deeper than death itself Seconds creep by, minutes last for years As I wait for my Father to answer me Yet no answer … Continue reading
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At the Table- A Meditation and Poem for Maundy Thursday
At the table with the others who will stumble and fall Here with the one who touched us each in our turn Healing our sickness, dispelling our demons, freeing us from our captivity At least for the moment we are … Continue reading
A Brief Forward to the Prophet Jeremiah
Jeremiah is one of the more challenging books to approach, both for its content, its length, the fact that it is not organized linearly on a specific timeline but rather skips and jumps to different times and places, and the … Continue reading
Betrayal- A Poem
A friend, a lover, a confidant, the one who I let down my armor to I accepted the blame for another’s actions And I slowly let the blade of betrayal slide between my ribs and into my heart How could … Continue reading
The Final Chapter: Esther 10: 1-3
This is the book of Esther written out in my hand, it spans 19 pages. This has been a part of my discipline as I write these posts. Esther 10: 1-3 King Ahasuerus laid tribute on the land and on … Continue reading
The Practice Forms the Faith: Esther 9: 20-32
Esther 9: 20-32 20 Mordecai recorded these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21 enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of … Continue reading
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The Horror Conclude: Esther 9: 11-19
Esther 9:11-19 11 That very day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king. 12 The king said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed five hundred … Continue reading
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