Tag: Folk tune
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My God, I Am A Harrowed Land
“for in Love’s field was never found / a nobler weapon than a wound.” A biography of St. Theresa of Avila brought me to this quote from Richard Cranshaw’s poetic tribute to her. The quote stayed with me for months, demanding exploration. Times of great loss can lead us into retreat and calcification; and they…
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Come, Watch For the Green
Encouragement to hold onto hope and continue to praise in difficult circumstances
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You Grow Like the Moss
The natural world is always changing, but that change is often extremely slow—hard to measure in human lifetimes. What would it be like to trust in the gradual unfolding of God’s desires within us and around us on this kind of timescale? The Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, devoted to both theology and science, wrote…
Hannah C Brown 