One more beautiful sliver of poetry that I found remarkably calming this week. There were a few tough days in there when my mind began slipping over into a (temporary) feeling of being “just LOST.) I found this short poem in my notes, and reading it over a few times, really helped put my mind ...
Here’s an excerpt from the New Zealand Prayerbook, the universal love of our maker as described in the beautiful language of Psalm 23
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Today’s meditation reads like a psalm to me: something very musical sleeps among the words. On a dark day, I found great solace in this meditation, praising the calm and seeking universal wisdom all around me! Save this for a rainy cloudy day: As a single slab of rock Won’t budge in the wind, So ...
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.Death Is Nothing At AllHenry Scott Holland (1847-1918)Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral “Let the dead things go, and lay hold on life. Purify yourself as He bids you Who is pure. Then the old will drop away from you, and the new wonder will begin. You will find yourself already passed from death to life, ...
Speech to the YoungSpeech to the Progress-Toward(Among Them Nora and Henry III) Say to them,say to the down-keepers,the sun-slappers,the self-soilers,the harmony-hushers,“Even if you are not ready for dayit cannot always be night.”You will be right.For that is the hard home-run.Live not for battles won.Live not for the-end-of-the-song.Live in the along. (Gwendolyn Brooks b. 1917)
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