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for Craig

Friend, perhaps it was rude of me when I stomped on your bed and dribbled a glass of water into the upturned cave of your ear. My point was that whatever lunatic scheme God had in mind for us worked … Continue reading

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A blue heron

A blue heron, three frogs, some water. Reeds. Me. This is my credo statement. The soul needs no campaign buttons. The divine vocabulary is whippoorwills and cicadas. Its grammar is up, earthward, towards the heart, and always still Water. Reeds. … Continue reading

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God who breaks all watches

God who breaks all watches, who is the life of the world, the bug in the operating system, the crick in the neck, the distraction in the story, the tears in the temple, the baby in the bathwater rushes, let … Continue reading

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God the mightiest

God, the mightiest beyond mightiest lives as your equal. Lives as your equal! This is how life is arranged: the thunder coughs, and then it is your turn to speak. OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI

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Sermon for All Souls Day (audio and text)

  “All Souls Day” Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hunterdon County 11/3/2013 “The are not gone who pass beyond the clasp of hand, out from the stone embrace. They are but come so close we need not … Continue reading

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Poem: Santa Letter

Santa Letter   At my age, I seldom hear reindeer in the night. The wise and the wondrous, in search of the Christ child, pass my door by. No crying here. It’s as it should be. My eye swims in … Continue reading

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