Tag Archives: journey

Lent Prayer 33 – April 6

Lent Prayer 33 how’m I doin’ the mayor said   am I living up to what you had in mind   am I letting down the side   or surprising you with my wit   how’m I doin’ I ask … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 30 – April 3

Lent Prayer 30 You give us tasks that push and pull us beyond our depths and yet to our deepest desires.   thank you for the gifts that we do not call for yet appreciate when they have arrived. —————–

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Lent Prayer 27 – March 31

Lent Prayer 27 our families open us to joy, sorrow, pain and laughter like Mary and Joseph Abraham and Sarah we try to make a way following your star ———————–

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Lent Prayer 16 – March 20

Lent Prayer 16 disappointments come when least expected, over hopes and plans much anticipated   the readjusting of directions the unwinding of feelings can leave defeat in the wake.   but then again they are a freeing from false roads … Continue reading

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younger eyes – January 27

poem 1.27 younger eyes look for older answers. away from the distractions of   blare and flare, glare that impairs.   younger hearts resonate to ancient callings that touch truths   that endure, ensure, mature.   younger minds know deceit … Continue reading

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peter’s story – January 14

1.14.2014 he jumped right in clothes and all   he jumped right out at the rooster’s call   back in, back out, the path he trod   of learning to live as a child of God. ——————

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forty four years – January 10

  1.10.2014 forty four years, vows taken. Peter’s line through hands lain on. voices, eyes, empty moments, opened then to what will come.   fortyfouryears run together as if a path lain out like string, winding, straggling, stumbling forward to … Continue reading

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rows and rows – July 25

7.25 rows and rows of verdant crops unfolding in the midwest sun   rows and rows of waiting room chairs hoping that wellness will come   we lay our crop lines early and late, in the lives we live the … Continue reading

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listening to old friends – May 15

5.15 Listening to old friends on the Utube Jamaica, Chestnut Mare, Bugler Jackson, Clarence, Roger the days of my life spread out.   Poetry embalmed, embattled in a soundtrack. And how beautiful some were in their day and now have … Continue reading

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wood (for Maury)- May 8

5.8 Oak. Flame. Striated, smooth, the life of wood erupts in my living room, like Maury, who breathes and lives and loves this stuff of his passion and need.   One day he decided that he liked wood. One day … Continue reading

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