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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
quotes: religion
theology
spirituality
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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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Be Still
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
Jul 5, 2021
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Enlightenment
The ancients say that once upon a time a disciple asked the elder, "Holy One, is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened?" And...
Gwynith Young
Jun 5, 2021
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Enoughness
"What will God give me?" "Enough . . . and a little bit more for your refreshment and delight."
Gwynith Young
May 26, 2021
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Frozen
Many are called but most are frozen in corporate or collective cold, these are the stalled who choose not to be chosen except to be...
Gwynith Young
May 24, 2021
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On Music and Lent
One time, years ago, for Lent, I decided I'd give up listening to music. Only, I was alone a lot anyway. And it was a rough year, and I...
Gwynith Young
May 4, 2021
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The Book of Ruth
"The book of Ruth is associated with the festival of Shavuot, or what Christians know as the feast of Pentecost . . .the story of the...
Gwynith Young
Apr 7, 2021
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Best Novel Title
A Feather on the Breath of God, by Sigrid Nunez
Gwynith Young
Mar 29, 2021
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Heart of Flesh
And I’m a follower of a great Hasidic master, named Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, who passed away in 1810 and lived in the Ukraine. And he...
Gwynith Young
Mar 27, 2021
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Margins
And maybe more important; maybe the white space is more important. And if you ever look at a traditional page of an old Jewish text,...
Gwynith Young
Mar 27, 2021
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Elie Wiesel speaks of Jerusalem
Here is the Valley of Jehoshaphat, where one day the nations will be judged. The Mount of Olives, where one day death will be...
Gwynith Young
Mar 27, 2021
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Elie Wiesel's Prayer
“I no longer ask You for either happiness or paradise; all I ask of You is to listen and let me be aware and worthy of Your listening. I...
Gwynith Young
Mar 25, 2021
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Stories
Stories have a way of opening up conversation and dialogue by making space for the imagination. In this space new realities can emerge...
Gwynith Young
Feb 19, 2021
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Women at War
When women speak [of war], they have nothing or almost nothing of what we are used to reading and hearing about: How certain people...
Gwynith Young
Jan 22, 2021
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Giving and Receiving
"A relatively healthy sense of self lets you accept what others can give you, even when it isn't quite what you yearned for . . . It's...
Gwynith Young
Jan 9, 2021
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Iona Closing Responses to Worship
On our hearts and on our houses the blessing of God. In our coming and our going the peace of God. In our life and our believing the love...
Gwynith Young
Jan 5, 2021
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Appointment in Samara
There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions. In a little while the servant came back, white and...
Gwynith Young
Dec 16, 2020
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Awareness
'When all this is over,' said the swineherd, 'I mean to retire, where Nobody will have heard about my special skills And conversations is...
Gwynith Young
Nov 26, 2020
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Death and Reincarnation
You have forty-nine days between death and rebirth if you're a Buddhist. Even the smallest soul could swim the English Channel in that...
Gwynith Young
Nov 25, 2020
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And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
Gwynith Young
Nov 21, 2020
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Karl Rahner: the Qualities of Eternity
"Scripture describes the content of the blessed life of the dead in a thousand images: as rest and peace, as a banquet and as glory, as...
Gwynith Young
Oct 26, 2020
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Karl Rahner: Eternity is the Fruit of Time
Karl Rahner, that most difficult of 20th century theologians, believes that every person's eternity is the fruit of time. "It becomes...
Gwynith Young
Oct 26, 2020
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Interpreting Easter
Jesus took his disciples up to Jerusalem. He expected the Reign [of the Messiah] to break in through Divine intervention and not through...
Gwynith Young
Oct 23, 2020
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Late have I loved Thee
Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new; late have I loved Thee! For behold Thou wert within me, and I outside; and I...
Gwynith Young
Oct 15, 2020
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Karl Rahner on Death
" We go to death in darkness, not knowing with absolute certainty whether the final free disposal of ourselves is into the absurdity of...
Gwynith Young
Oct 8, 2020
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