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Remembrance
Remembrance of those who’ve gone ahead
Remember Who they are with
Let joy replace heartache. They are still loved.

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To remember being both pain and peace. May I be open to all that comes.
-m

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Remember dirt under the fingernails, hands cracked and calloused,

Toiling – tilling – tending – Earth – Deep – dark – delicious – Death.

Remember thou art dust. Stardust.

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beloved dust
crumbled in heaps
each sparkling to the sky

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Remember the way
we held root-hands
across continents

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Ancestors rejoice in song
Lilacs in midspring on Touhy
Sankofa into tomorrow

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Years of firing probes at shiny curiosities

Has lead to a new mission; time to re-member the fleet

What does all this data say?

say?

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remember that dirt contains worlds - micronutrients, microorganism, fibers, rocks, water
so when I say you are dirt I do not mean that you are nothing, but that you are indeed everything
everything that makes life possible

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Remember what is easiest to forget
All your blessings
Especially that you are seen and loved

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to re-member those

it is simpler to forget

living without hurts

-leberly

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One year ago, top surgery for our youngest--a cake today in celebration.  23 years ago, ash wednesday, bedrest to protect a longed for first child.  Tonight, leading a grief support group--people bereft and remembering, so much lost to Covid.

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Instructions for the Self-Imposition of the Ashes

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Instructions for the Self-Imposition of the Ashes

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What? Mix them with oil, not water (that can hurt) and put them on with my thumb - so awkward. I'm sad and mad that I have to do it! No loving eyes and voice. Zooming later, I'll probably cry. I am crying. Maybe this will be the most lenty lent ever. Peace be with you!

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Dear Dr. Preacher Man

I can still feel the way your shame covered me and left me sticky

It reminds me to relentlessly preach the divine in Queer bodies and Love
-Mx. Yost

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The more I remember, the more I lose - 
my tiny baby pushed out of me, dead; my mother-in-law’s cold hand;
my father, gone suddenly while camping.   And more, so many more.

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remember when we walked along the beach?

how the warm sand tickled my toes - footprints

washed away - only memories remain

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Sunlight and citrus brim with abundance, leaping into blue 
recollection of gravel road & cherry tree, fresh cut grass and garage radio;
remember: scraped-knee-tree-climbing-lungs-firing child knows the God in you best.

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Remembering how we held hands and hugged and sang together. Keep this alive in our hearts. Reach out to a friend, to a neighbour, a stranger, the very first chance we get.

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I have known disjointedness and the need for rescue./
Walking on ice, I remember/
Vulnerability and the sure presence of grace.

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Remember when all we worried about was making it on time or what we wore?  Now we worry about each other. As it should be.  

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Remember when all we worried about was making it on time or what we wore?  Now we worry about each other. As it should be.  

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Love Outpoured, Communion in a coffee cup

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Love Outpoured, Communion in a coffee cup

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each hot drink I make for myself
remembers all the ones once gently handed to me
by people who love(d) me

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memory becomes flesh
flesh becomes self
self becomes nothing

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Remember the dust,
it fell from the stars
before it was you.

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impossible to remember
we never met
impossible to forget

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 Remember      My father left us in nineteen ninety one.    My mother in twenty fifteen. Yet I feel them rise with every morning sun.

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 Remember      My father left us in nineteen ninety one.    My mother in twenty fifteen. Yet I feel them rise with every morning sun.

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Still; unable to extract myself from
the Darkness pinning me to the floor.
Slowing...urged to find silence.

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Remembering you
in the baking aisle, I cry,
miss you and love you.

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Finding             What I was taught to never remember: Repairing ancestry 

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Finding             What I was taught to never remember: Repairing ancestry 

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This dust remembers: remembers the breath
of your body; star-flung brightness; rock and grit;
remembers the way of returning and rest.

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Remembering is the taste of seaweed that my mother's mother's mother's mother made for her daughter that my daughter will remember too from me.

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God's amnesia
of sins; our anamnesis
of God's forgiving

WDRplus

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Yes, it was you who was sad, and awkward, and sometimes alone.
And it was you who directed family plays, and explored the marshy woods, and drew cheerful monsters.
We gather today to consecrate your fragile, weird heart, baked of raw earth, and dusted in glitter ashes.

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Re-member the stab of regret and betrayal,
Re-member the hungry ache of sorrow and fear,
Then, in silence spaciousness, re-member the warm flow of the Beloved Alive.

David

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Holy One remind my soul,
point my heart and mind to you.
The Way the Truth and Guiding light.

MD

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send yourself flowers;
it's not too late to nurture
your own sacred heart

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Remember the holy dark, the icy street

the Februaries past. All beginnings,

all pain picked through with precious.

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I remember when my whole being changed. Set free; indescribable; bliss. I remember.

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We spoke on the phone today remembering our trauma.
You remembered mine and I remembered yours.
I tasted salt when you cried.

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Now is the center point of an hourglass
All that has come before expands below
Possibility expands up from this moment.

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A solidarity of survivors
Narrating our stories
So others don't live them.

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below the surface
bones and sinews of Camelops
running, still running

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i want to forget
breathing into each moment
help me remember

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remember what was. pause.
remember what is. look.
remember what will be. go.

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Snowmelt and bird cries—
What does spring remember—
Of last year’s lost nest?

ALI

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Remember, only God is eternal.
Remember, things haven't always been this way.
Remember, you are never alone.
Nick

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Remember? You are dust.

Drifting, upheld, indwelt by Divinity

Who remembers, being dust.

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I remember his picture fleeing the police in the summer of '67
I remember hoping they'd catch him
I don't remember when love (Love?) helped me hope he got away

Brian

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Full of sin and grace,
come, you are beautifully seen
dust, ashes and love

Cara

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Remember the pain
Of being cast out
And do not pass it on.

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Sometimes, words fail,
or flee, twist, burn.
But deep in the ash and dust, bodies remember.

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your hand on my back
storm clouds breaking; a rainbow
a promise-- we never truly pass

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Remembering
That I can set down the weight I am carrying
Brings peace
-Kim

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remember today/
sun through purple shades on snow/
willing wanting peace.

- KJM

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Etched skin; ink and scar
yet only smudge of stardust
makes me whole in you.

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who dreamed and worked and fought for us.
May we remember them in
how we live and love for others. - SJM

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Re-member a body evacuated to avoid the pain of trauma too frightening to speak. Remember that you are whole and holy.

Re-member a body that has been told that it should express itself on one side of the binary or the other. Remember that you are far more than the boxes people try to out you in for their own comfort.

Re-member my own heart - broken and still breaking. Remember that your heart isn’t just breaking; it is breaking open.

Re-member the body of Christ not by returning to the church building but instead by returning to love.

-Elisa

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Day 1: Remember

I do remember

Every minute way you expressed encouragement, delight, compassion, understanding

I wish I could have received it then

I wish I had told you

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The pastor who has just buried her teenage daughter
Marks my forehead on Ash Wednesday, saying
Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
GM

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Remembering is a dangersous thing but
Is not remembering worse?
Blocking the pain may also block the redemptive...
jm

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The touch of intimacy
the knowing of self
the return to togetherness.
HilaryC

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This year I am “not a pastor” for the first Lenten season in a long, long time.

Mostly, I don’t miss it. Mostly, I feel more alive than I have in a long time.

But I miss this sacredness: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

-Beth

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Scraggly scared little girl
I remember you well.
Sit by me now on mountain top
and we will watch the fear set in the distance

CM

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Remember faces
Now only as photographs
As my own grows old

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Remember
And, as she was dying,  Mary said quietly to John
Do you remember? Do you remember that day, when Jesus said " Dear Woman, here is your son"?

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With peace and calm
I seek
to approach, to remember
my thoughts and actions
that reveal my complicity
in systems, theologies, structures of
White supremacy.
Show me the way to dismantling,
deconstructing in me
all that prevents
collective liberation.
Show me the way of
hope, joy, peace

-Mary

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remember, the earth - source of my body and yours.
when death comes, tragically or with peace,
the promise is this: it will be a coming home.

- M