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Yesterday afternoon (3/23/24) I wrote a first draft of a poem based on the prayer I pray before and after receiving Communion. Translating a prayer to a poem is difficult because a prayer is much more than words. I will have to revise this before it captures the prayer. Prayer Before Receiving Communion Dear God, […]
As an atheist, heathen, pagan, I had many people try to evangelize me. Usually, they focused on questions of how. “How do you explain the existence of the eye,” was one that stands out, but there were many others. They were always challenges to explain the existence of life, the universe, everything… in the absence […]
Dear Jesus, It’s Sunday- the end of a long week or- No, The beginning of a long week- And I’m tired, So tired. I’m trying to decide which book to read So I balance a stack of three on my belly and Stare out the window: A cardinal scratches in the dirt beneath the Now […]
I made another prayer poem video yesterday morning. I’m realizing all my poems are pretty long so I had to clip it down quite a bit. It is fun looking through the things I’ve written. I haven’t looked through them in a while. This one is from a longer poem, Hosea 11:4 or Cords of […]
Recording Prayer Poems The other day I woke up with such an urge to record some of the prayer-poems I’d written and make videos from them in Canva. I recorded one (Everyday Conversion) but the sound quality was very poor. On Saturday I bought a better mic and tried again. The result was much better, […]
I’ve been experimenting with video editing on Canva recently in my volunteer work with the Pastorate. I love being able to combine images, video, and words in a visual narrative. So I decided to do this with one of the poems I wrote: Everyday Conversion. This short poem is about being reminded of God’s love […]
I am a thought traversing from one end Of this trail to the other And back again, An electrical impulse running along this axon: A memory of wind That peerless, swept across A Kansas field To catch milkweed tufts, Shaken out of their pod By a child’s hand. Seeds scattered for another day, White dove […]
For Our Children. I know what it is To flow like water To always be moving To never stay long. To be pushed by forces Beyond your control- To be the new kid seven times in Eight years, To get used to sitting alone And just wishing, That you could Freeze like Ice And remain […]
Yes is lying on the floor, Face down, Palms down, Not asking for blessings- Just waiting for what is given. Yes is long hours spent Sitting cross-legged, Like a moss covered stone Under a naked tree, In autumn rain- Not wishing for better shelter. Yes is punctuated equilibrium: Patient as a mountain lion, Ready to […]
Sometimes I feel a sort of spiritual whiplash. I’ll be motoring along and then suddenly, I’ll think about what I was doing this time last year and how completely my life has changed. Even if these are good changes, it is still a lot of change in a short time! That happened a few times […]
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