Photo by Landiva Weber on Pexels.com To live in three dimensions and not a flat, two-dimensional life. To enter abundance, to find fullness, to let God’s grandeur infuse me, and the beauty of God fill the sails of my life. So much anger and hatred around. So much flat foolishness and wasting of good time …
The Unseen is Seen: a poetic reflection on the incarnation
“For ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has its like ever been heard of? Has any people ever heard the voice of …
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Attentiveness – A Poem
to listen and to apprehendby slowly unfolding withinthe present moment to unshackle from busyness –the devil’s hold upon this age –by simply being with our eyes unshuttered and earsunstopped in explosive, divine,ordinary time to hear so clear what goes unheardto see indeed what goes unseenlike life is here now now our eyes see saturationsand ears …
The Beginning of the End: a poem for resurrection
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Marys at the Tomb, sketch; c. 1655. "After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, …
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Paul Mariani, “Death & Transfiguration” [Poetry for Epiphany]
I’ve enjoyed posting poetry series themed around the Christian year recently (see “Poetry for Lent,” “Poetry for Easter,“ and "Poetry for Ordinary Time"). As a follow-up to the "Poetry for Advent" and "Poetry for Christmas" series, I am continuing that theme with a series called “Poetry for Epiphany.” The season of Epiphany, runs from the …
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Matthew Erickson 