April 20th, 2025
posted by [syndicated profile] revlyncox_feed at 12:57pm on 2025-04-20

skinnerhousebooks:

Eastering

Why this sadness toward spring?
Half smiles at the first yellow flowers,
Tears pooling for no reason with each rain and sunset?

Each year this green show
blows wide winter’s coverings and lets us see
the swell and push of beginning again.

Am I meant to rise too?
To push away what leans against the door of my
pinched heart?
I cannot.
Compassion for myself
is a slow growing crop,
however carefully tended
it yields an unreliable harvest.

These resurrections
ask more than I can give
every time
this hurts more
than the pains of my body
than the old world full of sorrows
this offering of love
this unbearable gift of another chance.

—Barbara Pescan
Morning Watch

April 15th, 2025

“Navigating the Narrow Places” (revised for 2025) was delivered to The Unitarian Society in East Brunswick on April 13, 2025, by Rev. Lyn Cox.

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