Poetry and Prayer—Day 13: March 11

Written by: Julia Smolucha

Credo by Daniel Berrigan

Reclaim our hearts, O Christ. Remake us in your image. Refortify us for the maelstrom of peace that you intend. Bind us to that peace, O Christ. Amen.

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A Collective Murmuration, V: Murmuration of Heart

May 22, 2022

Once there was a man, who lived about 2,000 years ago, who did such amazing things and said such wonderful things, that people began to follow him. Jesus, the man they followed, knew the scriptures well, the sacred texts we call the Old Testament today. He knew not just the Ten Commandments, but all the law and the words of the prophets. He knew the psalms which sing of God the good shepherd who cares for us even in the darkest valleys very well. He knew God so well he often called God, “Father,” and the temple his “Father’s house.”

A Collective Murmuration, IV: Murmuration of Blessing

May 15, 2022

The starlings evoke and symbolize then, in their own way, the Anthropocene, the human-centered geological age we are in, which is changing the world in damaging ways we have yet to even imagine (though we are beginning to imagine, yes?). The metaphor of murmuration is a reminder that we can, should, and must work together, in collective synchronicity for the sake of God’s good earth. In this way, murmuration is an imperfect metaphor: a metaphor with heartache at the center.

A Collective Murmuration, III: Murmuration of Love

May 8, 2022

In this image of the Good Shepherd, we see the motherhood of God, God bending to hear our whisper, God pausing amid the rush of life to be alongside us in such a way as to hear—really hear—the trepidations, the fears, the secrets of our lives.... On Mother’s Day, we learn again that God is a Multilingual Mother, bending near to hear our whisper, our cry.

Poetry and Prayer—Day 13: March 11