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About bobjanisdillon

Unitarian Universalist minister, poet, husband, father, three-chord guitar wonder.

Your Monday Blessing: Third Sheep from the Left

Posted on December 13, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

The third sheep from the left is the holy child. You can see her, in the frame of her mother’s camera, at the heart of the heavens and the earth. In her, the earliest secrets of love are revealed. Before … Continue reading →

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After the Massacre: A Christmas Poem

Posted on December 13, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

  When it was accomplished, and Herod’s soldiers returned from Bethlehem, a silence settled over the land like frost. The odd wailing, like the purposeless wind. And it came to pass in those days that a mother, after her child … Continue reading →

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Yes, I have Sought Salvation

Posted on November 23, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Yes, I have sought salvation from the window of the internet browser. Just one more click, and that ought to fix the need for one more click. It takes no effort just to check if happiness is at my fingertips, … Continue reading →

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& the band paraded out

Posted on November 14, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

(after Cavafy)   & the band paraded out of Congo Square, marching to the midnight tolls, the enslaved spirits free for a time, between fourth and fifth, between Rampart and the plantation. The music drifted away, toward heaven, outstripping the … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing: trust

Posted on November 7, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Not in the rulers of nations, Not in the sale of the moment, Not in my team, not in my tribe, not in my demographic. Not in any theological formulation cleverly devised by man. Not in the shotgun barrels of … Continue reading →

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Halloween Dream

Posted on November 2, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

It has been foretold that you will enter an uncertainty, vast and deep – a dark wood, unattempted yet in prose or rhyme – armed only with an orange, plastic, pumpkin bucket. Your parent or guardian is in the distance … Continue reading →

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Blessed are the many, blessed are the one

Posted on October 24, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Your Monday Blessing words this morning come from friend and colleague the Rev. Judith Walker-Riggs. These words were the chalice lighting words for Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel’s 2016 Academy Service, a service in memory of the Warrington Academy, the school … Continue reading →

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Poem by John Aikin, M.D.

Posted on October 17, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Your Monday Blessing today comes from the pen of John Aikin, M.D. (1747 – 1822) the subject of this year’s Warrington Academy Service at Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel. This is from his “Epistle to the Rev. W Enfield, Ll. D.” … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: The Tree and the Doctor

Posted on October 10, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

You’ve probably heard the one about the tree who went to the doctor. “It’s bad, doc,” said the tree. “I see. What seems to be the trouble?” the doctor asked. “I should have come in weeks ago, doc, when it … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing: Prayer for Discomfort

Posted on October 3, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

I have a prayer that my discomforts might not be trivial. See, the thing is, I KNOW I’m going to seek comfort. Most of us do naturally, to some degree, and I DEFINITELY do. And I’m not castigating myself over … Continue reading →

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