Two poems, by Muriel Rukeyser and Denise Levertov, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah by
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Rosh Hashanah – A Stirring of Wonder
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My Blind Eyes Were Touched with Light
Helen Keller’s poem about revelation–“In the Garden of the Lord”–has a vision of revelation that is all the more powerful because we know the speaker is literally blind. That gives special poignancy to the line, “My blind eyes were touched with light.”
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Wander Slowly through the Forest
In this nature poem Mary Oliver tells us to open ourselves to “God or the gods,” to listen for “the words that will never leave God’s mouth,” to linger in the wind and the rain and to wander slowly through forests,
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We Feel Closest to God in the Desert
André Gide takes the story of the Prodigal Son and sees it a parable of unconventional exploring and spiritual hunger. Returning home, as Gide sees it, is a defeat, yet the message is Christian nonetheless.
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A Guest Worthy To Be Here
Jesus learned to accept a Canaanite woman at his table and George Herbert learns that he belongs at that table. We can use them as models as we face refugees and immigrants.
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Look Down on Us Who Journey by Night
Alfred Noyes’s “Night Journey” looks to God to find hope in the night.
The Spirit Moves in Continual Creation
In “Chorus,” Elizabeth Jennings finds God in ‘tears shed in the lonely fastness/And in sorrow after anger.”
Scorn No Vision That a Dewdrop Holds
Eva Gore-Booth finds divinity with a dewdrop here, and twilight hour there. The “One” can be found in “the gentle Light that shines behind the storm.”
From the Dark, Cold Grime a Flower Comes
Mary Ann Bernard shows spring coming only with difficulty–but being all the more meaningful because of that.
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