Category Archives: Your Monday Blessing

Your Monday Blessing: Once Again I Recommit to my Surrender

Posted on June 20, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Your Monday Blessing: Once Again I Recommit to my Surrender Once again I recommit to my surrender to love. They point their little guns at us, there isn’t much time. Raise the mast heavenward, unfurl the rainbow flag. I stand … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: from “The Epic of Muhammad Ali”, introduction

Posted on June 6, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Speak, Muse, of the one who was the Greatest, tell of how he stole glory from the gods, punched the lights out of heaven and made us all see stars. In this corner, show the odds against the black man … Continue reading →

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The People Who Have Been Good to Me

Posted on May 30, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

I would be more cynical, I suppose, except it feels unfair to the people who have been good to me. My life, as I look back, has been littered with kindnesses. Once, a woman made me tea. Asked me if … Continue reading →

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Plain Speech

Posted on May 23, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

God loves especially the poor, for he is eager to give them everything. God loves especially the hungry, for she is eager to feed them. God loves especially those who cry, for ze is eager to wipe away their tears. … Continue reading →

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Precious Moments

Posted on May 16, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

Precious Moments Time is a sledgehammer to porcelain, Memory, the hue of bathwater once The kids have gone to bed. The word is said, The allowance spent, quicker than the growth Of an atom outside the lab. Give, then, Each … Continue reading →

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Prayer for Humility

Posted on May 9, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

God, I pray you might humble the grand, beautifully ornate and rather useless temple of my self-importance, and grind it into the common dust, from which the actions, and best grace, of this world are composed.

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The Castle Ruins

Posted on April 11, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

The crabgrass towers over the dirt at the castle ruins. The children trample it down, in freewheeling approximations of massacres past. Only the echoes, only the hints of the shadows of the echoes, are made to last. The hostages run … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Hoc

Posted on March 28, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

“This is my body,” he said, stretching across the table. “What, a salt shaker?” “It was at hand,” he said. “Listen, do you think it matters that we’re at a diner on Seventh? Or that you worked at the docks … Continue reading →

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TThe Parable of the Runners on the Corners

Posted on March 14, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

And he said to them listen, listen, the kingdom of heaven is like a baseball game. There are men on first and third with two outs, the catcher’s eye strays to the opposing dugout, hoping to steal a sign. A … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Anxiety Dream

Posted on February 22, 2016 by bobjanisdillon

I dreamt I had to give a presentation to a huge number of people. I arrived extra early, just to make sure I had time to prepare. I was left to myself, no one disturbed me, and one thought came … Continue reading →

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