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November 30, 2021 by Charles

The Gift by Mary Oliver

Be still, my soul, and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow. So, be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part. Love still as once you loved, deeply and without […]

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May 18, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Logos and Mythos – May 18, 2021

Throughout the month of May we have been considering the spiritual theme of Story. Stories are essential to our identity as meaning-makers. Stories, poetry (a kind of storytelling) and the images they invoke ground us in a reality. We live the stories of our lives as a script with a beginning, middle and an end, […]

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December 2, 2020 by Charles

Instructions for living a life by Mary Oliver

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

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April 29, 2020 by Charles

The Fist by Mary Oliver

There are days when the sun goes down like a fist, though of course if you see anything in the heavens in this way you had better get your eyes checked or, better, still, your diminished spirit. The heavens have no fist, or wouldn’t they have been shaking it for a thousand years now, and […]

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July 19, 2019 by Charles

Moments by Mary Oliver

There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn’t it? You’re not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

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February 23, 2014 by Charles

Five A.M. in the Pinewoods by Mary Oliver

I’d seen their hoofprints in the deep needles and knew they ended the long night under the pines, walking like two mute and beautiful women toward the deeper woods, so I got up in the dark and went there. They came slowly down the hill and looked at me sitting under the blue trees, shyly […]

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January 11, 2013 by Jenny Klein

Thirst by Mary Oliver

Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do not have. I walk out to the pond and all the way God has given us such beautiful lessons. Oh Lord, I was never a quick scholar but sulked and hunched over my books past the hour and the bell; grant me, in […]

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March 20, 2012 by Jenny Klein

Lead by Mary Oliver

Here is a story to break your heart. Are you willing? This winter the loons came to our harbor and died, one by one, of nothing we could see. A friend told me of one on the shore that lifted its head and opened the elegant beak and cried out in the long, sweet savoring […]

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March 20, 2012 by Jenny Klein

A Bride Married to Amazement by Mary Oliver

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, […]

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November 11, 2010 by Jenny Klein

To live in this world by Mary Oliver

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: To love what is mortal, To hold it against your bones knowing Your own life depends on it; And when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

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