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About bobjanisdillon

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

Your Monday Blessing: when god was pregnant

Posted on May 11, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

when god was pregnant when god was pregnant her belly swelled up like song ’til she was rounder than the seasons of the world. her legs grew larger than the questions raised by wondering boys, her breasts filled the emptiness … Continue reading →

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Why We Have Seasons

Posted on May 7, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

The point of seasons is when the wheel turns to spring, and we live through one of those days, you know, when it’s crisp as a braeburn apple in the morning, and then the sun rises in the East, and … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing

Posted on May 4, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

May the shining sun be itself, the river otter be itself, the saguaro cactus be itself, the pebble be itself, the red ant be itself, the furthest relative rock in the universe be itself, the unfolding lily be itself, the … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing

Posted on April 27, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Our world is constantly evolving, changing all the time, and it happens so gradually and so mysteriously, that we mortals can but wonder at the way that rocks may become life, and dinosaurs may become birds, and we become…who knows. … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: The Man in the Ice Cream Truck

Posted on April 20, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

I don’t want to sound paranoid but the man in the ice cream truck has been following me my entire life. He waits for months at a stretch, keeping his truck in cold storage until I least expect it, or … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing: The extra verses of your life

Posted on April 13, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

The extra verses of your life Are written in a foreign hand And possess an uncertain beauty – The cadences are all ungainly, Or else far too cutesy. You almost fear they’re written mainly To impress, an order forced upon … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing – Palm Sunday

Posted on March 30, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

When the power to change the world came into the city, it arrived, it is said, riding on a donkey. The power to change the world – not merely to secure the diadem of successive kings, holding it tightly in … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing

Posted on March 23, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

may the love in your heart be exceeded only by the ever-unfolding, mysterious grandness of the o so many all and each worth loving

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Your Monday Blessing: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted on March 16, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

May your friendships be richer than gold, And love more expected than the rain. May your life be long in kindnesses, And may your days be God’s way Of smiling at the world.

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Your Monday Blessing: The Bridge in Selma

Posted on March 9, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

The promised land was guarded By water cannons and dogs of war. The dreaming people linked arms And crossed the bridge. Every army Has carried the rightness of their cause, But where, throughout history’s endless mausoleums, Do we find this … Continue reading →

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