Friday, September 26, 2008
Thoughts on Poetry ~~~~~ W. S. Merwin
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing. W.S. Merwin _______________________________________________________________________________________ PSALM 113 Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!...
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MORNING MEDITATION
MEDITATION: For we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. Titus 3:3 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. James 3:16
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
EVENING MEDITATION & DEVOTION
MEDITATION: GREAT is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, In the city of God, His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion in the far north, The city of the great King. God, in her palaces, Has made Himself known as a stronghold. Psalm 48: 1-3...
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LANGSTON HUGHES' POETRY CORNER Mother to Son (outstanding poem)
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor-- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And...
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Thoughts on Poetry ~~~~~~~~ Muriel Rukeyser
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser ______________________________________________________________________________ PSALM 112 Praise the Lord. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly...
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MORNING MEDITATION
MEDITATION: Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment;...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
EVENING MEDITATION & DEVOTION
MEDITATION: And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Genesis 1: 2 My soul waits in silence for God only; From Him is my salvation. Psalm 62: 1 __________________________________ DEVOTION:...
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Thoughts on Poetry ~~~~~~~~ Vladimir Nabokov
Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, "Wolf, wolf," and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been...
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MORNING MEDITATION
MEDITATION: O Lord God, in Thee I have taken refuge; Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me. Psalm 7:1 "But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you." Matthew 5:44
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
MEDITATION & DEVOTION
MEDITATION: "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger and he who who believes in Me shall never thirst." John 6: 35 ___________________________________________________ DEVOTION: RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is...
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