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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
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—Mary Oliver
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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?
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—Mary Oliver
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God is a Judge . . .
"You know what I mean by sheepdog trials, don't you? he said. They're open-air exhibitions of the skills dogs show when herding sheep,...
Gwynith Young
Dec 6, 2022
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It's Advent
People, look East. The time is near of the crowning of the year. Make your house fair as you are able, trim the hearth, and set the...
Gwynith Young
Dec 5, 2022
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. . . Nor God Either
The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this rook, moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf...
Gwynith Young
Nov 28, 2022
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Authenticity
Tell me it's wrong the scarlet nails my son sports or the toy store rings he clusters four jewels to each finger. He's bedecked. I see...
Gwynith Young
Nov 28, 2022
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Grief
I know that on Sundays, at around midday, You cautiously open the ancient sideboard And pour a glass of the same grape liquor We used to...
Gwynith Young
Nov 27, 2022
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I did not Speak Out . . .
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not...
Gwynith Young
Nov 27, 2022
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Saint?
One definition of a saint is someone who has not been researched well enough. Silence: a Christian History. Diarmaid Mac Culloch, p. 203
Gwynith Young
Nov 27, 2022
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Silence and Creation
2 Esdras 6:39 . . . elaborates on the primeval darkness and formlessness before creation to add a new description: . . . 'the Spirit was...
Gwynith Young
Nov 27, 2022
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The Word
One foundation strand . . . of the discourse from which the Christian faith is constructed, based on the gospel of John, gives Jesus the...
Gwynith Young
Nov 27, 2022
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Recognition
The point about angels I can see more clearly now. We have grown too old and postish for a muscular bearded god brandishing his...
Gwynith Young
Nov 23, 2022
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Love
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the...
Gwynith Young
Nov 18, 2022
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Heaven?
In a dream I meet my dead friend. He has, I know, gone long and far, and yet he is the same for the dead are changeless. They grow no...
Gwynith Young
Nov 18, 2022
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Death
The rooms and days we wandered through Shrink in my mind to one--there you Lie quite absorbed by peace--the calm Which life could not...
Gwynith Young
Nov 17, 2022
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Love and Creation
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass, And the eyes of those two Indian ponies Darken...
Gwynith Young
Nov 17, 2022
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Crucifixion?
Now, did he really break the seal And rise again? We dare not say; But conscious unbelievers feel Quite sure of Judgement Day. Meanwhile,...
Gwynith Young
Nov 12, 2022
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Healing
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. 'In Memory of W....
Gwynith Young
Nov 12, 2022
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Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the...
Gwynith Young
Nov 12, 2022
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Maimed?
He was a poor patriot. To State And Church, an unproductive tree. But there On the brow of the hill, within the narrow Circle of family,...
Gwynith Young
Nov 12, 2022
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Creation
Two limestone plates support the Aegean world. The greater Anatolian still lies flat, But half an eon past, through silent eyes: ‘Ave!’...
Gwynith Young
Nov 10, 2022
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A Dog at Death
The Zoroastrian priests of Media (later Persia) would bring a dog to the bedside of a dying man--for him to feed the dog a morsel and so...
Gwynith Young
Nov 9, 2022
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Longing
We may not know what we believe, but we know what we long for. Patricia Hampl
Gwynith Young
Oct 25, 2022
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Psalm
When I was a child I sang in the synagogue choir, I sang till my voice broke. I sang first voice and second voice. And I’ll go on singing...
Gwynith Young
Oct 25, 2022
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Brilliant Darkness
Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, Up to the farthest, highest peak Of mystic scripture, Where the mysteries of God’s Word Lie...
Gwynith Young
Oct 25, 2022
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Listening
The sentences we studied are rungs upon the ladder Jacob saw; the law itself is nothing but the road; I have become impatience of what...
Gwynith Young
Oct 25, 2022
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