Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Leap and Dance [reposted from 2007]

Imagine knowing the presence of someone you have never met yet you knew in the core of your very being that this someone was indeed extraordinarily special. You cannot see or hear them, much less anything else, because you haven't been born yet. Warm and cozy insider your mother's womb, no cares in the world for any ordinary baby, but for John soon-to-be the Baptizer, it is very different. Imagine the thoughts, the vision...

Shimmering in

Understated majesty

Sapphire and silver

Herald the Coming

Afar that way but

Drawing, drawing

Incrementally nigh.

Coming in

Glistening glory,

With awe, pondering

The wordless beckoning

The spirit replies

Yea! Follow the Star!

I follow, immersed in

Glimmering glory

My soul shouts

In joy inexpressible

He comes! He comes!

My Lord, He comes!

Oh how I would leap

And dance before

His coming, if not

For this womb.


Catherine+

Monday, March 26, 2007

Our ++Kate Has A Birthday Today!!!

We owe Hat Tips to Ann Fontaine+ [Wyoming] and Kay Sylvester+ [Cal] for the birthday newsflash, and to Tom Woodward+ of Sante Fe, NM for the separate but appropriate and tasteful limerick about Our Kate:

"Here's to our PB named Schori,
whose gift to the church is Amore.
When pressed by the left
and the right, being deft,
her focus remains: God's Glory."

"O God, our times are in your hand: Look with favor, we pray, on your servant Katharine, as she begins another year. Grant that she may grow in wisdom and grace, and strengthen her trust in your goodness all the days of her life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Happy Birthday, Katharine!

Consider giving a gift to Episcopal Relief and Development in honor of ++Katharine's birthday today. Go here to make tax-deductible donation in her name.