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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
quotes: religion
theology
spirituality
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
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Laughter
Just these two words He spoke changed my life, 'Enjoy me.' What a burden I thought I was to carry-- a crucifix, as did He. Love once said...
Gwynith Young
Apr 6, 2023
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Hiddenness
Start seeing God everywhere, but keep it secret. Don't grieve, Hafez; your fortune has been told: Some day the Beloved will lift for you...
Gwynith Young
Apr 6, 2023
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Meditation
Kings have locked their doors and each lover is alone with his love. Here, I am alone with You. Rabi'a al-Basri, C8th.
Gwynith Young
Apr 6, 2023
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Prayer Language
Arabic was a private tongue reserved for God, God's own tongue, and I understood that if I spoke it to God earnestly, mellifluously, it...
Gwynith Young
Apr 6, 2023
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Prayer at Christmas
If this is man, then the danger And fear are as lights of the inn, Faint and remote as sin Out here by the manger. In the sleeping,...
Gwynith Young
Mar 26, 2023
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Show Us Your Hands . . .
Show us your hands and say it again, As the lake dries and the mud is caking, As the guns jerk and the bodies flounder, Show us you've...
Gwynith Young
Mar 26, 2023
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Hope
Hope is optimism with a broken heart. Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage, 271
Gwynith Young
Mar 14, 2023
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Blessed, Gripping Incomprehensibility of the Holy
Hence words must be spoken to him...till he understands that their whole meaning is to utter the unutterable to make the nameless mystery...
Gwynith Young
Mar 11, 2023
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Divine Darkness
The divine darkness is that “unapproachable light” where God is said to live. And if it is invisible because of a superabundant clarity,...
Gwynith Young
Mar 11, 2023
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Vulnerability
There's something about being open and vulnerable that is conversely very powerful, maybe even transformative. For me, vulnerability is...
Gwynith Young
Mar 3, 2023
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Grief
Perhaps grief can be seen as a kind of exalted state where the person who is grieving is the closest they will ever be to the...
Gwynith Young
Mar 1, 2023
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Homecoming
My life was extremely chaotic, and my music was too, of course, but I was always trying to find some kind of spiritual home. Nick Cave
Gwynith Young
Mar 1, 2023
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Religion
Religion is spirituality with rigor, I guess, and, yes, it makes demands on us. For me, it involves some wrestling with the idea of...
Gwynith Young
Mar 1, 2023
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Easter Hymn
Here hangs a man discarded, a scarecrow hoisted high, a nonsense pointing nowhere to all who hurry by. Can such a clown of sorrows still...
Gwynith Young
Feb 15, 2023
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The Church of Christ . . .
The Church of Christ, in ev'ry age beset by change, but Spirit-led, must claim and test its heritage and keep on rising from the dead....
Gwynith Young
Feb 15, 2023
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Primary Wonder
Days pass when I forget the mystery Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they...
Gwynith Young
Feb 12, 2023
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St Thomas Didymus
In the hot street I saw him a small man grey but vivid, standing forth beyond the crowd's buzzing holding in desperate grip his shaking...
Gwynith Young
Feb 12, 2023
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At Last . . .
New Ways Ministry rejoices because of Pope Francis’ declaration that homosexuality should not be criminalized, a statement which...
Gwynith Young
Feb 12, 2023
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Civil Rights
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Martin Luther King jnr.
Gwynith Young
Feb 2, 2023
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If I'm Late, Don't Wait . . .
Step by step, all the happy Saints go marching in And if a Saint step out of line he'll have to start again 'Cause Jacob's golden ladder...
Gwynith Young
Jan 20, 2023
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Seed, Scattered and Sown
Seed, scattered and sown, wheat, gathered and grown, bread, broken and shared as one, the Living Bread of God. Vine, fruit of the land,...
Gwynith Young
Jan 16, 2023
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Music expresses thoughts- feelings- what's inside- that we haven't named yet . . .
Music of Doubt, Grief and Transformation; a dialogue between Meredith Lake and Sister Maeve Heaney, ABC Listen, 'Soul Search', 3...
Gwynith Young
Jan 2, 2023
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First Communion
When the day of Holy Communion came, I was amazed at how the body of Christ pasted itself to my front teeth and furred my hard palate....
Gwynith Young
Dec 19, 2022
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It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold; "Peace on...
Gwynith Young
Dec 12, 2022
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