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We Lived, Felt Dawn, Saw Sunset Glow
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. ~Lawrence Binyon from...
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Known Autumn Too Long
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~e.e. cummings No matter how stripped down I...
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An Advent Paradox: Glory in the Darkest Place
O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer our spirits by thine advent here; dispel the shadows of the night, and turn our darkness into light. ~from O Come O Come Emmanuel Moonless darkness...
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An Advent Paradox: Loose a Heart Bound By Shame
Here is the mystery, the secret, one might almost say the cunning, of the deep love of God: that it is bound to draw on to itself the hatred and pain and shame and anger and bitterness and rejection...
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Some Blessed Hope
In a dark time my eyes begin to see… ~Theodore Roethke I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled...
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Partly Cloudy
Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudiesin which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt,and then the shadow sweeps it away.You know you’re alive.You take...
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A Dwindled Dawn
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.~Emily Dickinson in a letter to a friend April 1885 Adjusting to our children being grown and moved away from home took time: for months, I instinctively grabbed...
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A Fear of Sunsets
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.George MacDonald In our modern world that never seems to rest, a sunrise can feel more daunting than a sunset. We are unprepared...
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Immensity Cloistered
Whom thou conceivst, conceived; yea thou art nowThy Maker’s maker, and thy Father’s mother;Thou hast light in dark, and shutst in little room,Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb. ~John Donne...
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Go Forth with the Dawn
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roamIn the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.~Georgia...
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