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E’er Blooming
In the fullness of time, a Flower blooms: not minding the plans of war or the harvest of grief, not measuring the seasons of power or the generations of wealth’s sin, but simply spreading its petals...
View ArticleAlleluia!
The Lamb of God has come, alleluia! The Son of Man is born, alleluia! The Redemption of the World is revealed, alleluia! By your name, O Jesus, we are glad and through your life we are satisfied. The...
View ArticleGlory
in the highest and on earth: glory! from the east and the west: peace! among angels and newborns: praise! in our waking and sleeping: wonder! The post Glory appeared first on Rachel G. Hackenberg.
View ArticleSwaddling
Be not afraid, o my soul, to hold Love close to your breast, to wonder at its fingers and toes and eyes, to marvel at Love’s sweet breath. Swaddle Love gently, tightly, as though it is the labor of...
View ArticleRamah
So close to your glory, O God, and yet so very far. Rachel’s lament fills our ears from a shul in Monsey, NY to spiked underpasses in London. So close to your glory, O God, and yet so very far....
View ArticleRevelation
O Present and Still Coming Wisdom, contrary to the lessons of this world: From the littlest ones teach us love, and from the meekest show us majesty. In the ire of self-righteousness reveal human...
View ArticleLove
What we have confined, O Love, you have exploded. What we have defined, O Love, you have confounded. What we have constrained, O Love, you have released. What we have diminished, O Love, you have...
View ArticleChristmas Praise
“Let there be rest for the weary, O God Most High, rest and peace to the brokenhearted, peace and pleasure for the despondent, and let freedom come like an angel to the earth.” So sing the stars and...
View ArticleWild Things
Praise the LORD from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps; wild animals and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds! – Psalm 148:7, 10 (NRSV) Listening to a 45 RPM vinyl as a child, I learned...
View ArticleRoom for Rage
Herod sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken...
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