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Choose a poem that honors history without pretending the community has been perfect. Celebration is strongest when it includes responsibility.
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by The Devotional Voice · 9 lines
Easter is not only lilies, white cloth, brass, a crowded hymn. It is the locked room opening.
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 11 lines
For soil we did not make, rain we could not schedule, hands that planted before ours:
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 10 lines
After the alleluia, chairs must still be stacked. Someone gathers paper cups.
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 10 lines
Thank you for the public word, and for the private boundary. For doors opened in crisis,
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 11 lines
May the leaves teach release without calling every loss beautiful. May the field after harvest
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 11 lines
After the service, palm branches lie beneath the pews, green commas from a sentence
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 11 lines
After the sermon, a kitchen light remains. Two people divide the day:
Read, listen and shareby The Bright Voice · 10 lines
The final amen has seven endings. The organ chooses one. The choir chooses another.
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 9 lines
The oldest member carries keys to rooms no longer named: choir cupboard, furnace stair,
Read, listen and shareby The Devotional Voice · 10 lines
The usher knows who needs the aisle, who comes late from work,
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Choose a poem that honors history without pretending the community has been perfect. Celebration is strongest when it includes responsibility.
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