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laureanna
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Posted: Fri 25 Feb , 2005 8:26 pm
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OK, I'm back, and it's a Friday. But I've got a nasty flu bug and I'm running a fever and home all day and I don't really care. So there.

As for swearing, I always considered it a form of verbal violence, since that was its context in my home. The paragraphs surrounding the words are long gone, but my dad's "pet" names for me will never leave.

Nowadays, it seems people use swear words so freely that they have lost their clout. Now they just make the user sound like he has a rather limited vocabulary. Razzing someone with a 5 syllable word is much more fun. I hope you succeed in your resolution, Jewlsong!

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Di of Long Cleeve
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I'm a practising Christian - of a vaguely evangelical Anglican variety - and I didn't give up anything for Lent. I'm not sure if I know anybody else who has either!

I find the whole Lent/Easter thing a lot more meaningful than Christmas though. I detest the gross consumer-fest which Christmas has become. Ugh. No objection to partaaaaaying on down, but I just hate the materialism.

I don't believe that Jesus came to give people religion. He came so that we would have life, and have it in all its fullness.

Just my 0.2 cents. :)

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I like the way you put that, Di.

A Holy Week bump for this thread...

This Lent has been less meaningful than usual for me. I didn't attend Ash Wednesday service for the first time in years, didn't take part in a small group study and rather than giving up something, just sort of gave up. It's been a difficult year and I just took a break from a lot of my usual church activities.

I did go to the Maundy Thursday service tonight because I'd been asked to chant Psalm 22, which is something I look forward to every year. It was a powerful experience. I nearly lost it, though. When I got to the line "I am a worm, and no man" I suddenly had a totally inappropriate urge to pull of a helmet and stab the Witch King. ROTK flashback... :D

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laureanna
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Oh well, I failed to keep my Lenten promise about staying away from boards. In fact the day I broke was when I was running a fever and having the flu. That was the day I was "rude" to Alys, got myself banned, got everyone else up in arms, at the same time, coincidentally, as Movies was engaged in the great poopy fiasco. That'll teach me. :D

Have a great Easter, Spring Festival, Fall Festival, or March 27th, y'all!

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:LMAO: Wampus!

Laureanna, you kept it well enough...so you stumbled once...doesn't make the rest of it void.

Me...I never even tried.

I missed Ash Wednesday...or did I? Can't remember. :neutral:

But I did go to the Resurrection last night. It's very heartening to see thousands (no kidding) of people willing to spend four hours in a church waiting for Christ to rise.

Very tiring business though. *yawn* especially if Grandma and Grandpa insist that we have Easter breakfast with them at nine am the next morning...owch...I should go right back to sleep, really.

Good news though...CHRIST IS RISEN!

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I posted the following poems on my Live Journal just now and this seems like a good thread to put them in. :)

EASTER DAY

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a true blue dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and of wings: and of the gay
great happenings illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any - lifted from the no
of all nothing - human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e.e. cummings

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Resurrection Thou -
Bright Morning Star -
Lord of the Dance -
Leap of Faith-
Stillness of Joy -
ALL HAIL!

Jim Cotter

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CORN KING

Corn King
spring!
leap, leap. Lord of light,
dance, dance, dear delight.

Grain buried deep
today, tomorrow, sleep
then
lightward
larkward
skyward
Godward
leap
bright to death

Broken corn King harvested,
thrashed, ground, milled for bread
at daylight leap
from your dark sleep.

Harvester, begin
the dance, the dear delight.
Yielded sheaves, golden bright,
a garnered horde
welcome their harvest lord
while corn-fat valleys shout and sing
honouring
the harvest king,
feasting the harvest home
with broken bread and one cry: Come!

Jenny Robertson

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Berhael
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Happy Easter Sunday to everyone. :)

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Di- lovely poems. Thank you. :D

Happy Easter to all. :sunny:

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