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A Life of Joy
Ezra 1:1-4, 3:1-4, 10-13 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom, and also in a written…
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Soil Tending in the Desert
Comfort, O comfort my people,says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley…
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Two Hundred Pounds, or What is Precious?
2 Kings 22:1-8; 23:1-3 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of his father David; he did not turn aside to…
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HOME (by Warsan Shire)
no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than you breath bloody in their throats the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is…
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Que Será Christians
In my family, my parents liked to give each of their beloved children a “theme song.” And so it was that, growing up, my sister was haunted by family members singing “Rocky Raccoon,” and I found myself treated to regular group-singings of Doris Day’s mid-century hit, “Que Será.” I found myself thinking about that song…
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“Salzburg, Republic of Austria, July 2006” by Melaney Poli
In order not to repeat history, it is not enough to know it, we must know ourselves, and our complicity. -Schillling Some days you have to take what you can get, and that day my mother was too sick to find yet one more crowded pavement cafe and the worst of it was, sitting…
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Sing A New Song: Psalms of New Orientation
One of the strengths of national holidays is that we are given an opportunity to reflect on the stories that we tell ourselves about who we are. Many of us are afforded some federally mandated time to pause and to remember the values and the struggles that have brought us as a country to where…
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How Long, O Lord? Psalms of Lament
If you were to take a look in your hymnal right now, smack in the middle, you would find that there are songs that are associated with Psalms. Part of the reason for this is because, in our tradition at least, for most of our history the songs we have sung have been the psalms…
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Thoughts on Charleston
Good Lord. We are up to our eyes in so much violence that it we forget that this is not what God intended for us,… and then a tragedy like Charleston jolts us back for a moment. I grieve for a creation that has forgotten that peace is better than a sword, I cry out…
Deeper in me than I 