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How can I keep from singing?
I get chills and can barely choke out the words whenever we sing this hymn. [there are tons of versions of this song, but this was the one that most satisfied my inner church lady... plus, holy moly,...
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Thoughts for Thursday
“Why I Wake Early” by Mary Oliver Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the...
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Wage Peace: A Prayer
Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds. Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown...
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Thoughts for Thursday
An Altogether Different Language By Anne Porter There was a church in Umbria, Little Portion, Already old eight hundred years ago. It was abandoned and in disrepair But it was called St. Mary of the...
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Across a New Dawn
Over 70 people died in the terrorist attacks in Nairobi this week. Among them was the poet Kofi Awoonar. He was set to publish a new book of poetry next year, among them a poem called Across a New...
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Thoughts for Thursday
Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no...
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While He’s Away: A Poem About Being Gone
By Jason B. Ladd - While I’m away The mission’s first We’ll put our best against their worst But victory will fail to quench my thirst While I’m away - While I’m away The silence settles in The mood...
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While He’s Away: A Poem About Being Gone – 11/11/13
By Jason B. Ladd - While I’m away The mission’s first We’ll put our best against their worst But victory will fail to quench my thirst While I’m away - While I’m away The silence settles in The mood...
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Untouchable
race is every where in my world in a way it has never been before the exchange of money the palm to palm and mouth to mouth of words rings through my mind and body in constant clarity front loaded...
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