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Tag Archives: church
concerted concert – October 15
10.15.17 [concerted concert] wrinkling faces alive in song, not professional but intent to make music out of simple gift within. housewife, grandma, bookkeeper, teacher nothing pure; just holy. ====================
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Tagged church, community, grace, music, simple joys, simplicity, song, un self consciousness, unabashed
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all the saints – November 1
11.1.2016 no one named the saints today but they were here and made my day. ————–
empty choir stalls – September 19
9.19.2016 empty choir stalls with gothic scrolls where young boys in starched white collars and black buttoned cassocks gave their voices up to God and found their ways in the world. miss bicknell would keep me in check barely … Continue reading
easter miss – March 27
3.27.2016 [easter miss] dry tired face belying festive garb follower of a dead noble leader that misses the move, the rise, the difference. and with it the joy. ——————
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Tagged church, death, dourness, Easter, faith, joy, loss, loss of faith, new life, ressurection, sadness
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habitat – August 7
8.6.2015 hands on helpers put in muscle grunt and even some skill to produce a thing of value for an other family’s life. goodness of heart reaching across bad vibes times spaces to make a difference. ————————
BIshop Heather Cook, 2014 – January 13
1.13.2015 it’s not my fault it’s not my fault the bishop asserts it’s not his fault but whose is it then. not mine say those who elected not mine say the agendas that selected not mine say the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Heather Cook, church, cost, denial, Episcopal Church, failure, original sin, sacrifice, sin
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churches close up – October 26
10.26.2014 churches close up, fall vacant, stop trying. and where is God away, absent, busy elsewhere, while we took too much for granted and Jesus went to where voices and hearts are open still while the world … Continue reading
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Tagged church, churches, danger, distance, failure, God, Jesus, missing, resistance, sadness, secularism, self-indulgence
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Film Review: Calvary – September 10
Film Review – Calvary http://www.livingchurch.org/priest-forever
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Tagged Calvary, church, film, guilt, innocence, ministry, movies, mystery, priesthood, sacrifice
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bag lunch lady – September 4
9.4.2014 in a rain slickered coat she asks for four lunches each time, carefully weeding out the apple sauce and sweet potato chips asserting to the world and to herself that beggars can indeed be choosers. —————–
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Tagged care, charity, church, compassion, dignity, homelessness, integrity, poverty, pride, resistance
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