Featured Image Credit: Kathe Kollwitz, "The Widow," print, 1921 On Sunday, we continued to write laments in the style of the ancient Israelites. As I said in the last post, the genre of Biblical lament has five basic parts: invocation; honest complaint; expressions of confidence; petition; and praise. In today’s post, I’ll talk about honest … Continue reading Laments & Honest Complaint
This Lent we are writing laments, as many of us feel that the entire world is lamenting, crying out to God in pain, uncertainty, and suffering. We are studying lament as a Biblical genre, and shaping our own lamenting to fit that genre. Trying to write in a poetic form that emerged in a very … Continue reading Laments & Invocations
by KPB Stevens We four climbed the mountain, and He was changed,changed like the flaws made by freezeand thaw as it cracks the walls of a church,since change breaks all that we struggle to contain.Change is raw, it weeps and seeps and breaksthe load-bearing law, and brings us, the remaining three,to creep on painful knees. … Continue reading Transfiguration, Days of Insurrection
The fish is in the sea and the sea is in the fish, so that every muscle, every organ, floats in brine.I breathe in the chill, right air of the morning and oxygen binds into molecules, unites my body to the world.Beloved, by what element does my soul gather in the divine? What part of … Continue reading The Soul is in God, and God is in the Soul
I see my reflection in the polished gold of my gift,like a priest staring down into a chalice.I shine from the side of the scrolled box,and looking at myself is like looking at the sky,at the part of me that lives above,always close to the goodness of God,always trying to choose, with me,good thoughts, good … Continue reading While Kneeling, I Speak My Magic Self
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