Lent is a 40-day journey, I’m told. But there are actually 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter morning. The Sundays are feast days, not fast days. Who knew? I need to plan a new plan. A diminishing diet. A shrinking of words? Word Count: 40 Today’s Reading: Ephesians 1 – 6 “The good […]
40 Words of Lent 2014: Day 32 (still saturday)
Morning Prayer This is the day, let it be the day of the poem today, today, today for my loves who I care for and who You care for more than I ever could because, of course, You are God. ~L.L. Barkat in Love, Etc.: Poems of Love, Laughter, Longing & Loss […]
poetry prompt: hinged on a dream
She danced between dreams rusted and worn, whirling and twirling until the music stopped, and she slipped through the keyhole of door number three where she found another door that hinged on a dream. And the lock was broken. Still dreaming and dancing, Sandy Responding to a Tweetspeak Poetry prompt on dancers and […]
still saturday: poetry begins you
Let’s be clear: poetry begins you, though you might not know or feel it. You’re alive in a world God made from words. And God’s words have made you alive, and are making you more and more so. ~Dave Harrity in Making Manifest, “space and silence,” p. 25 Maybe it’s our job to incline our […]
