Tag: creation
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Prayer on the Front Line
I pray for Ukraine, that each blade of grass, flowers, bees and beetles, birds and butterflies. – I pray for their protection against the avalanche of violence and vile destruction. — I pray for each small child, girl or boy, their school, hospital, park and their climbing tree. — I pray for their safety, in…
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Sacred Sunrise
The candles burned brightly in the temple, repaired the curtains and ordered the day, while down in the fields a body, dead lay. ——– Relieved they slept through a golden dawn and missed the signs that God was about, missed the glory of dying being bested. ——- The sun burnished creation that morning and made…
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It started so well.
Alone, silently, a cell splits on a planet, cold and bleak, traces of life beginning fragile, hopeful and a stirring of a sigh. —- Then others mutate and movements starts as the urge to live, to create and to be but changes the barren land and sea and sky. — Slowly, creeping, altering organisms are…
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Cambo and others
The candle flamed and then the dark enfolded it, taking the space from the rank room and filling it with the sins of the rich nations who take each glimmer of light and feed on it leaving the rest to wrestle with the deepening dread of night and —– nearby in valley of shadows someone’s…
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Creation groans.
The bounteous skin of the earth corrupted, its bones break through, bleaching in the sun-
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