Posts tagged poetry
Lent Daybook, 15: Nobody's Living Right

Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40 days of prayer. Click through the link to see the full post.

Look: Cain and Abel, Titian - Source

Listen: “Adagio for Strings, Op. 11” from Barber: Cello Concerto - Medea Suite - Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Spotify | YouTube

Read: Psalm 69; Jeremiah 5:1-9; Romans 2:25-3:18; John 5:30-47

Pray: The Lord’s Prayer

Do: Spend 15 minutes in silence. Reflect prayerfully on the previous week.

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Lent Daybook, 13: All Hell Broke Loose

Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40 days of prayer. Click through the title link to see the full post.

Look: Free For All, Dan Wicz - Source

Listen: “Half Crazy” from Sleeping Operator, The Barr Brothers - Spotify | YouTube | Lyrics

Read: Psalm 72; Jeremiah 3:6-18; Romans 1:28-2:11; John 5:1-18

Pray: Prayer of Confession (Rite II), Book of Common Prayer

Do: Fast replacement symbols for language - emojis and social media “likes” - and feast on the language of lament and amazement instead.

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Lent Daybook, 7: Stubborn

Welcome to a Lent daybook for these 40 days of prayer. Click through the title link to see the full post.

Look: Moses on Mount Sinai, Jean-Leon Gerome - Source

Listen: “Even in the Valley” from Part II, The Silver Pages feat. Mona Reeves - Spotify | YouTube | Lyrics

Read:Psalm 119:49-72; Deuteronomy 9:13-21; Hebrews 3:12-19; John 2:23-3:15

Pray: "The Decalogue", Texts for Common Prayer, Anglican Church of North America

Do: Fast from TV / Entertainment this week. Read instead!

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Advent Daybook, 14: Fulfillment

An Advent daybook for these 24 days of prayerful expectation. Join me, won't you?

For an introduction read this post: Advent Daybook explained. You can see previous Advent daybook 2018 posts here.

Look: Reconciliation Stained Glass Window in St. John’s Church, Tralee, Ireland, Thomas Denny

Listen: “The Trumpet Child” from The Trumpet Child, Over the Rhine

Read: Psalm 42, 43, Isaiah 8:1-15, 2 Thessalonians 3:6-18, Luke 22:31-38

Pray: from Advent (1851), Christian Rossetti

Do: Fill your house with natural fragrance today.

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Advent Daybook, 7: Remaining In Zion

An Advent daybook for these 24 days of prayerful expectation. Join me, won't you?

For an introduction read this post: Advent Daybook explained. You can see previous Advent daybook 2018 posts here.

Look: Meg Hitchcock, Shema - Letters cut from the Koran, 2014 (source)

Listen: "Mt. Zion” from Live At Home, Cageless Birds (feat. Jonathan David Helser)

Read: Psalm 116-117, Isaiah 4:2–6, 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, Luke 21:5–19

Pray: from Inscriptions, 16: "The lamps are burning in the synagogue", Charles Reznikoff

Do: Spend 10 minutes quietly observing the night sky.

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