Category: Prophet Margins
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Come to the Water
God’s steadfast love shall not depart from youwhoever you areThough the mountains may fall downand the hills be turned to dustCome to the waterCome to the One who is lifethe One who is loveAll of you who are thirstycome without any silverGod will place new stonesOne will set new foundationsThis love will be yoursTerror shall…
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Final Horizon
I keep exploringfor a whole more than the parts a flow that dancesWish the angels would help me walk on waterI would be light enough then to go to those islands on the horizon line across the Salish Sea to not be carrying all I’ve madeBut I don’t yet know how to live without most…
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$60 Bibles – A New Sacrilegious Low
Why have you forsaken me…For the curs came all around me, a pack of the evil encircled me. they bound my hands and feet…They shared out my garments among them and cast lots for my clothes. This is from Psalm 22, centuries before the Crucifixion. Reverend Jacqui Lewis pointed out this morning the similarity between…
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Update for Prophet Margins Website
On the home page of my website [https://morph-e-art.com] there are now 4 previously published works. These are available as pdfs for viewing or downloading at no cost. The works are Alchemy in Red and Black (18 pages), 12 Offerings for First Fridays (40 pages), Come to the Water (100 pages), and Prophet Margins (110 pages).…
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With a Human Face
Beyond classroom or church we are here together Perhaps our only real duty is to find our freedom’s flow that is rooted in beauty in faces and marketplaces on hillsides and downs in cities and towns finding truth through uncertainty even in university The reign of God is always at hand in sacred spaces and…
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The Call of Moses
In wilderness I drove the flock to mountain great I came and there a lowly bush appeared that filled itself with flame That I might see I turned toward fire The spirit then round me came In flame the cosmos opened wide I told God “Here I am” God called my name I lost my…
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Gaudi Cross Surrounded by Hexagon
This is an isometric drawing. This type of drawing is characterized by central angles of 120 degrees representing the 3 dimensions – or in this case misrepresenting the 3 dimensions. The title is Gaudi Cross Surrounded by Hexagon which is also a misrepresentation since a Gaudi cross is 3-dimentional while a hexagon is 2-dimensional. Rejected…
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5 Roads to Walk
These 5 meditations can be read all together or one at a time or in groups. The photo of the painting by my friend, Nicki Lang, is used with permission. We Are What Is Left Lions and tigers and bears, oh my Language and logic and lies Fictions seem to last longer than the truth…
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The Church Goes to Africa
This is an Ignatian (imaginative) take on a New Testament passage and a poetic intrepretation of two passages from the Book of Isaiah. This is a picture of a scale model of Jerusalem as it was in about 72 A.D., just before it was destroyed by the Romans. It is at the Israel National Museum…
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Belonging to Prayer
No one I know has found the keys to the kingdom of prayer. We cannot force God to stumble over us as we sit. It’s a good idea to sit anyway so every morning that’s what I do, waiting and making friends with the habit of listening believing that I’m being listened to by Jesus.…