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    Kneeling in Jerusalem
    Kneeling in Jerusalem
    Kneeling in Jerusalem
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    Kneeling in Jerusalem

    By Ann Weems

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    In a powerful and creative way, renowned author and speaker Ann Weems brings new insight into the Lenten season by providing seventy-one poems of inspiration. With her intuitive and heartening poems, Weems takes the reader on a pensive journey through Lent and Easter. p>

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestminster John Knox Press
    Release dateSep 1, 1993
    ISBN9781611644463
    Kneeling in Jerusalem
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    Ann Weems

    Ann Weems is a Presbyterian elder, a lecturer, and a popular poet. She is the author of Family Faith Stories, Reaching for Rainbows, Searching for Shalom, Kneeling in Bethlehem, Kneeling in Jerusalem, Psalms of Lament, and Putting the Amazing Back in Grace, all available from WJK.

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      Kneeling in Jerusalem - Ann Weems

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      ON OUR WAY

      THE HOLY IN THE ORDINARY

      Holy is the time and holy is this place,

      and there are holy things that must be said.

      Let us say to one another what our souls whisper…

      O Holy One, cast your tent among us;

      come into our ordinary lives and bless the living!

      Forty days stretch before us,

      forty days of hungering after faithfulness,

      forty days of trying to understand the story,

      and then, Holy Week…

      O God, if every week were holy…

      These forty days stretch before us,

      and those of us who believe

      yearn to feel Your presence,

      yearn to be Your people;

      and yet, the days fill with ordinary things

      with no time left

      for seeking the holy.

      Spiritual contemplation is all right

      for those who have the time,

      but most of us have to make a living.

      Most of us have to live in the real world

      where profanity splashes and blots out

      anything holy.

      Where, O Holy One, can we find You in this unholy mess?

      How, O God, can we find the holy in the

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