Friday

Inspiration:

He halted in the wind, and, what was that

Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost?
He stood there bringing March against his thought,
And yet too ready to believe the most.

‘Oh, that’s the Paradise-in-bloom,’ I said;
And truly it was fair enough for flowers
had we but in us to assume in March
Such white luxuriance of May for ours.

We stood a moment so in a strange world,
Myself as one his own pretense deceives;
And then I said the truth (and we moved on).
A young beech clinging to its last year’s leaves.

— Robert Frost

Rev. Meg: Forgiveness and Brokenness

“…and one day, I realized: I don’t know why she doesn’t like me!”



Thursday


broken pottery heartInspiration:

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. –Albert Camus

 

 


“Friend”

by Kim K. Crawford Harvie, Senior Minister, Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts

Water, shelter, food … and a friend. A friend can save your life.

Rev. Dan Kane was cooking, I was washing, and what happened next was definitely my fault, although he says “we” broke it. Drying on the counter was a hand-painted platter that Dan and Darin had brought home from Italy, a large, expensive piece of pottery with significant sentimental value. And “we”—that is, I—somehow unsettled it and it dropped like a little bomb onto their kitchen floor, shattering into shards and dust with a c-r-a-s-h. I couldn’t believe it…. MORE