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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
REFLECTIONS OF A PERSON OF FAITH
Your One Wild and Precious Life
reflections of a person of faith
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
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Unknowable God . . .
Unknowable, as I am unknown to my guinea pigs; how can I 'love' you? I only as far as gratitude & awe confidently and absolutely go...
Gwynith Young
Oct 6, 2024
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My gift
Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake, inimitable contriver, endower of Earth so gorgeous & different from the boring...
Gwynith Young
Oct 6, 2024
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Easter
Our generation has never seen a man crucified except in sugary religious art; but it was not a sweet sight and few of us would dare to...
Gwynith Young
Oct 4, 2024
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Relief
There is good news, and better news. There is a Messiah. He is not you.
Gwynith Young
Oct 1, 2024
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Fully Alive
Don't be one of the frozen chosen.
Gwynith Young
Oct 1, 2024
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On Poetry and Zen
'Zen pretty much comes down to three things- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.' Jane Hirshfield in 'Let Them...
Gwynith Young
Sep 3, 2024
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Contemplating the Possible Return of Donald Trump
Let them not say: we did not see it.We saw. Let them not say: we did not hear it.We heard. Let them not say: they did not taste it....
Gwynith Young
Sep 3, 2024
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Un-doing
'Page' It waits now for snows to fall upward, into a summer whose green leaves vanish, but back into branch, into sap, into rain. It...
Gwynith Young
Sep 3, 2024
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My Failure', a poem by Jane Hirschfield
I said of the view: “just some trees.”
Gwynith Young
Sep 3, 2024
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Renewal
Amidst the trays and jars and paraphenalia of the potting shed, shielded from butterflies' eggs and hungry pigeons, green stuff is...
Gwynith Young
Aug 13, 2024
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A prayer for those taken captive by Hamas
God, please bring home the captives. Just as our ancestors were redeemed from Egypt, may they journey from darkness to light — right now.
Gwynith Young
Apr 5, 2024
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Prayer for preservation
Strikes eight the bell, pray all be well, Please Lord preserve our frail nutshell, Lend to us thy strong right arm, That through the...
Gwynith Young
Mar 19, 2024
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Heaven (2)
. . . and one day this mask will be indistinguishable from the face beneath, or no longer a mask but the face itself, for which there can...
Gwynith Young
Mar 19, 2024
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Heaven
Libera Me Deliver me , Lord, from the threat of heaven, from becoming the angel who is not me, who smiles faintly, fondly before...
Gwynith Young
Mar 19, 2024
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Accept me as I am . . .
(This post is written from the distress that I feel when I am reminded of how little I have to offer to God.) Accept me as I am, for this...
Gwynith Young
Mar 16, 2024
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O Master Carpenter . . .
O Christ, the Master Carpenter, You, at the last, through wood and nails crafted our whole salvation, wield well your tools in the...
Gwynith Young
Mar 13, 2024
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The Excluded . . .
Lord of the excluded, open my ears to those I would prefer not to hear; open my life to those I would prefer not to know; open my heart...
Gwynith Young
Mar 13, 2024
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Prayer for Myself
For the promises I have made, then broken, forgive me, Lord. Of my outward show and inward poverty, heal me, Lord. In my desire to...
Gwynith Young
Mar 4, 2024
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Silence
Knowing, yet unknown, without a name, yet holding every name, often unexpectantly you come close, and in tenderness reveal the meaning of...
Gwynith Young
Mar 1, 2024
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Desert ways
Jesus of the desert ways, walk with us as we leave comforting truths, familiar certainties, and travel with you into the silence and...
Gwynith Young
Feb 25, 2024
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Water-walker
Come to us Water-walker as we sail the unruly seas of our lives. Thom M Shuman
Gwynith Young
Feb 16, 2024
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Ashes
We rise again from ashes, from the good we've failed to do. We rise again from ashes, to create ourselves anew. If all our world is...
Gwynith Young
Feb 14, 2024
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Pope Francis on Anti-Semitism
The path that the Church has walked with you, the ancient people of the covenant, rejects every form of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism,...
Gwynith Young
Feb 5, 2024
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Stillness
Be still, for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One is here; come bow before him now with reverence and fear: In him no sin is found we...
Gwynith Young
Jan 25, 2024
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