Tag: gratitude
member name: Judy G.
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January 05, 2007 11:01 AM EST --
John 15:1-16
The Common Lectionary gives us this text today from John, on the Eve of Epiphany. We receive Jesus' commandment to love one another as he has loved us, and to bear fruit . . .
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March 24, 2007 01:19 AM EDT --
grace and gratitude
from heart to heart
the former without the latter
diminishes the gift
shuns the giver.
ah, but the rightful response of the soul
to the soul's lover
causes both . . .
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May 27, 2007 01:34 AM EDT --
Holy act of sacred conspiracy
Of one breath with God
Drawn in one with another
One within another
One of the other, one and the same
Creation moment
Creating and moving and living . . .
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August 20, 2007 12:17 AM EDT --
Maybe it was a perfect storm about to fall all around me. Maybe it was just a bunch of life transitions happening all at once. There were a few moments that hurt like hell, but those moments . . .
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December 13, 2006 09:46 AM EST --
grace and gratitude
from heart to heart
the former without the latter
diminishes the gift
shuns the giver
ah, but the rightful response of the soul
to the soul's lover
causes both to sing
ah, . . .
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July 15, 2007 10:11 PM EDT --
cranberries and orange with subtle notes of cardamon
scents meander down the hallway and call through my drowsing sleep
scones hot from the oven await me, coffee dark and oily rich
this early morning . . .
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December 22, 2006 11:17 PM EST --
Many endings are ahead as the year comes to a close. They are endings that just seem to hover out there - almost a threat, almost a promise - nothing final. Not just yet.
Ending the year with . . .
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March 08, 2007 06:52 AM EST --
It's Spring - and my nose goes crazy! But not merely in the pollen-induced sneezing sort of way. No, God blessed me with a nose that can smell snow on a distant mountain top from way down in . . .
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March 13, 2007 02:05 AM EDT --
The thermometer outside the henhouse read nearly 100 degrees in the shade today. I ventured into the sunlight and thought I heard the young sprouts of corn gasping for water. We took the gamble . . .
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August 16, 2006 01:59 AM EDT --
Some may say that as we age our sense of wonder vanishes. Maybe it never left me, maybe I never grew up. But here, at the age of 52, I find myself filled with wonderment and awe as I hold . . .
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September 22, 2006 02:37 AM EDT --
Innocently enough, it sprang from the rich brown/black compost heap, way back in the far boundry of the yard. It had a couple companions joining the stretch for sunshine and freedom from that decomposing . . .
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August 19, 2006 01:25 AM EDT --
it's a beach afternoon
bonfire at dusk
wind wafting the scent of far away shores towards me
my chair settles snugly down into the sand
surrounded by books and good friends
shore birds and children . . .
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August 19, 2006 01:32 AM EDT --
a peace finally found
in stillness and quiet,
from a silence not broken,
received in the heart
how large can a heart grow
deep reaching peace
a mind cannot grasp it
the soul finds it's . . .
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September 02, 2006 01:25 AM EDT --
I was married just a couple weeks after my 20th birthday - the first time. I was married a few weeks after my 30th birthday - the second time.
I told my new husband that when 40 rolled around, I would . . .
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September 02, 2006 08:15 PM EDT --
topiary life
shaped from birth
with wires and twine
buds and blossoms emerge
strain to send their offerings
outside the bounds
living free for the moment, undiscovered
back against the stucco . . .
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February 23, 2007 08:52 PM EST --
it's on hold
squelched and stuffed and sealed
in a place that cannot yet feel
that knows keenly awaiting pain
where my soul fears the letting go
fears the anguish and sorrow . . .
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