Tag: lectionary
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The Truth of Transfiguration
If only we could wrap glory upkeep it coddled in a crateso that its shine and its shimmeringits light and its glimmeringwill remain intactperfect and cleanpure and pristinelasting forever, an eternal cadaver.But it calls us down the mountaindown into the trenchesmaking home on the plainexposed to elementsthe sun and the rain.Glory is meant to be…
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Waiting in the Wilderness
Leaverun to touch the unknown edge of the soultip-toe on the cliff of its waterfallbuy its one-way ticket somewhere farwhere the comforts and constrictionsof this weary, western fictioncrumble awayfrom the drudge of daily-doingsto dancing in the grey. Let her wander deep into the wildernessfollowing its inner purposehearing its wild wingshovering in the in-betweenof what’s invisible…
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Liberation’s Way
Angel of YHWHYou are the pillar of cloudthat lights up the nightone with the darknessand one with our fright. Lead us awayfrom powers and politicsthat subdue and persuadeand guide us on dry landthe path to your freedomby Moses’ hand. Form a wall of gracefor the downcast and displaced:those we turn our backs towardsand those we…
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the Politics of Passover
God of politicsyou come to those downcast and dismissedenslaved and weighed down in mortar and bricksbringing food and freedom:a pathway to your kingdom. May we learn how to eatwith loins girded, sandals on feetstaff in hand, on the edge of our seat,waiting and watchingas you break the chainsof the oppressive reignsand the systems sustainedon the…
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Here I AM
I AM who lives and breathes in soil,you teach us to let up our toilof trying to prove our worthlike anything could separate usfrom the heartbeat of this earth. Help us understandhelp us knowhow our bodies are interwoven with this whole.Help us take off these sandalsexpose our solesto the pure dust and dirtyou encompass and…
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Down in the River to Pray
God of liberation,who chooses the onesfrom the most oppressed nations,you call us to look foryour saving gracein the shadow places of your world: in Hebrew mid-wives,a Levite woman,and the daughter of a Pharaoh;in refugeeswho traversed the wild seasor the single mother of three the people we do not see. Shake us awaketo your saving gracestill…
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Walking on Water
The One who calls us to actionand contemplation,you call us to return to the mountainto memorize meditation,pronounce presenceto unknow the knowablein silent places:in the corners hidden in timeand minutes hidden in spaces. Give us will and a wayto meander this mountainthough the waves ragethe winds roarand the unknownis the only thing that is sureso we…
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God of the Darkness
God of the Darknesswho comes to uswhen the sun has setthe night has comeand the shadows of the world and our souls become one. You come to usin the wrestle of lifein the fight for a blessinggiving us a new namefrom the struggles we have enduredfrom the moment we were birthed. So let us, in…
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The Way
What ifthe waythe truththe lifewas not some threadbare pathinvisible to the naked eyesomewhere far awayand up highsomething you have to work foror something you have to buy? What if the way was where you already arewaiting to be exploredwaiting for you to take off your loadto bare, instead, a yoke so easy so lightlike a…
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Just one leper
Turn back.Remember your skinso soft and serenewas made cleanwhen you had faith that you were seenbeheld, beloved and believed in. Turn backRemember your heartwas made to sing like a larkto prostrate your lifeand all your deepest longingsin a lullabyfrom your lungs to where you lie. Turn backRemember your souland its songs of thanksgivingso sweet and…
by Rev Alisha 