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Dream Team

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Dream Team

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I haven’t slept

I’m waiting

Any moment now

I’ve closed my eyes

Lain still

Got as comfortable

As I could

Not enough

Morpheus is for dreams

I can’t recall who is

For sleep

Do the muses visit?

How about someone

From another

Group,

Egyptian or

A Mayan?

I’m more than willing

To negotiate

For obeisance

In exchange for

Some hours

Of nothing more

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Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856–1931), Hypnos. The title (“Sleep” in Greek) comes from the fact that the boy holds two flowers of Brugmansia (a.k.a. “datura”), having a hypnotic effect.

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The Gospel

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The Gospel

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The gospel in a word

Is love

The gospel in a word

Is news

The gospel in two words is

Saving story

The gospel is for you and me

And all of us

Yes, it is

No one is excluded

No matter how we wish it so

We might be disbelieving

When we meet them

Later on

Even then

It is a book of love, after all

A story of salvation

Good news for everyone

No one excluded

No adult swim

No east or west

North or south

Exclusions

I don’t know about a ladies’ night

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Fortune Telling

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Fortune Telling

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Do people really

Run away

To join the circus?

Did they?

What did they do?

Pull on tent ropes?

Feel elephants

Or other animals?

Sweep and sweep

While learning

A circus trade?

Trapeze?

Clowning?

Firing a cannon or

Getting shot out of

One?

It’s Monday

And in my culture

This is the kind of thought

That people have

On Monday

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my heart to give

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my heart to give

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my heart to give

lord Jesus

my worn heart

broken, stitched

machined

hardly new

why should Jesus

want it

but he’ll take it

I think

not because

of its condition

or because

he can renew

but because

he is all love

and will not refuse

love given

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after reading “In the Bleak Midwinter” by Christina Rossetti

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Dream Over

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Dream Over

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I dreamed

About my brother

Last night

Then my sister

And my mother

Who was sick

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I tried to get ready

Asked my sibs to help

They would

(they did)

I tried to fix things up

As best I could

Then went to work

Where I was testy

With the people

There

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Dream over

I woke up

And feel tense

Old long since

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A Sun, a Chariot, a Rocket

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A Sun, a Chariot, a Rocket

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Gee, the myths are done

For a while

New Year’s

Twelfth Night

Imbolc/

Brigid’s Day

Lunar year

The groundhog’s day

I’m going to miss them

Because they

Render truth more interesting

I mean, every day’s a

Saint’s day

Some stories so old they

Might fall apart

Under laser scrutiny

Christopher is one story of those

(and Brigid)

But myths aren’t false,

I mean

That’s conversation

They are stories

To explain

What we don’t know

What is beyond

Us

And our words

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Why does weather

Change?

What is at the center

Of the universe?

What is on the other side

Of life?

Maybe we know more of the

Answers

Now

Maybe we don’t need to give

Gods names

Except where we do give names

Or use the old ones

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The names

And reasons

Myths are still our seasons

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Mud-Healing

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Mud-Healing

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Jesus didn’t need

Things

He didn’t need mud

To heal,

To draw in the dirt

To make a point

He didn’t need a drove

Of pigs

(poor pigs)

He didn’t need a feast

He didn’t need

The perfumed oil,

Though he adored

The one who gave it

I am sure

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He didn’t need Martha’s

Food

He didn’t need Mary

At his feet to learn

Though I imagine

He was happy for

Her devotion

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Jesus didn’t need

The Earth

Though he came

To save it

And to give

Too much

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This was

And is

A God of love

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When we love,

So many things

Don’t matter,

Anymore

And what does

We’re willing

If not ready

To give up the world for

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Sacrifice

For service

For devotion

Life for another life,

To dive or run into

Dangerous waters

For rescue

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(the sermon started in John 9, mud-healing)

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Metaphors for Divinity

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Metaphors for Divinity

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God is love

God is a spirit

God is a lion

God is a rock

The rock of our salvation

And the Bible tells us so

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Easy Errantry

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Easy Errantry

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God grant

Peace for friends

And good days

Well-deserved

Because they are

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No pre-requirements

Beyond existing

Now

On Earth

Today, hopefully

Into tomorrow

All right, so an anti-disposition

Toward causing pain

In others

Wouldn’t hurt

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But beyond that

Simply be today

And have good days

Without because

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Krafla, Islanda

when I first saw the image, I thought it was upside-down; on second glance, I thought it was a painting

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