tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post5210339010981705668..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: Smelling out deathElizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-85871882849835179132012-02-21T13:18:07.961-05:002012-02-21T13:18:07.961-05:00Oh, Holly, I ache for you because that has often b...Oh, Holly, I ache for you because that has often been my experience. Indeed, it has shaped my commitment to be different. To make the words real and alive and true. It's so much easier when I've "tampered" with the words and made them more of what I know to be TRUE about Jesus and Lent and the Resurrection. <br /><br />It's a difficult tension. And yes, nature speaks more profoundly than words.Elizabeth Kaetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-88785988947293052592012-02-21T11:23:09.702-05:002012-02-21T11:23:09.702-05:00Yes, oh yes. How beautiful! How true! I find myse...Yes, oh yes. How beautiful! How true! I find myself at a point in my life where within the confines of my ecclesiastical location (I cannot deem it "church") I find only death. It is stiff, cold, unresponsive; everything done by the book. Words said, rituals done, but with no conviction that they are TRUE and REAL and more POWERFUL than death. Only when I walk outside into a too-early warm winter and see the buds struggling to know whether to come out or stay put do I see the truth of the coming Lent. Thank God nature still speaks when humans forget how to.Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994700197780672448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-21612849509203531322012-02-20T15:35:49.530-05:002012-02-20T15:35:49.530-05:00Hi, Whiteycat. You are welcome. The only thing wor...Hi, Whiteycat. You are welcome. The only thing worse than what we hear from many pulpits and "Lenten meditations" is the theology in our hymnal. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Talk about singing to our "inner Calvinist"!Elizabeth Kaetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-38537884256671580972012-02-20T15:19:02.851-05:002012-02-20T15:19:02.851-05:00Elizabeth, thank you for this outstanding post. I ...Elizabeth, thank you for this outstanding post. I often say "I am giving up church for Lent." That is because it is the season when often I am subjected to the poorest theology. Dead doctrines abound. The poetry in your post definitely surpasses dead words that emanate from dead doctrines. You have named my pain, touched where it hurts and offered me hope. Thank you for that!<br /><br />I hope that during this Lenten season you will post more life giving poetry.whiteycathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04278420345601368200noreply@blogger.com