Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Best Things in Life
The best things in life are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet…
Poetry
New Year’s Blessing
In the coming year, may you live
with an ever deepening sense of abundance and ease.
May you see clearly and welcome with open arms
the wealth of love and support that surrounds you.
Best Poetry Books for Children and Young Adults
It is a fortunate child who shares these poems with an adult that cares– firelight, fuzzy blankets, cookies, and hot chocolate, are optional additions for added ambiance…
Advent is the Name of That Moment
The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens.
New Poem: Dance of the Tide
…flashing white petticoat flounces
flirting with the stalwart ebony rock face…
Poem by Ruhiyyih Khanum: This is Faith
To walk where there is no path,
To breathe where there is no air,
To see where there is no light-
This is Faith.
Grace Notes #2
This Thanksgiving, I am furthering my goal of appreciating the abundance of random good.
Thanksgiving Links 2016
Here are live links to past Thanksgiving features on this blog as well as those to Christian Science Thanksgiving services.
Night Prayer of a New Zealand Prayer Book
The night is for stillness. Let us be still in the presence of God.
Poem by Rudyard Kipling: If
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Hymn 258
Oft to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side.
Poem by Lisa Schwartz: Our Long Sad Brief Season
If this is our season then doom is our fate;
Our politics are treason and we are its freight.
David Abrams Quote: Talk to, Not only About
How insulting to the other beings–to foraging black bears and twisted old cypresses–that no longer sense us talking to them, but only about them, as though they were not present in our world.
Grace Notes #1
“Grace notes” will occasionally capture my jottings of incidental gratitude for sacramental moments in the shards of daily life.
New Poem: Northeast Harbor Marina
Such static power chomps at the bit restless to fly free but meanwhile, moored on a glassy calm…