{"id":2114,"date":"2016-12-05T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:29","slug":"advent-monday-week-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/12\/05\/advent-monday-week-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Monday, week ii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, \u00a0December 5 \u2013 \u00a0\u201cimagine grief as the<br \/>\noutbreath of beauty\u201d<\/p>\n<p>November 29 was the anniversary of Bill Pauly\u2019s sudden death at 59, 2006, of a heart attack. \u00a0That year Bill played inside a lovely sabbatical after years of demanding pastoring on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation in western South Dakota.\u00a0 Before Pine\u00a0Ridge\u00a0Bill had been pastor in a South Milwaukee Hispanic parish. \u00a0Bill is a soul friend and I miss him at especially at this time. \u00a0 He loved beauty, and hospitality, and play, and sacred stillness. \u00a0 Partly because of the date he died and partly because of the way he lived, Bill stays in my memory and imagination as an Advent figure. \u00a0He did not fear grief or fatigue.\u00a0 Bill also introduced me to the poet Mary Oliver. \u00a0There\u2019s a lot of him in today\u2019s post, \u201cWage Peace,\u201d\u00a0and a lot of Advent too.\u00a0 Best to read the poem out loud, with pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest weekend when the weather looks to be teasing winter from a safe distance.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u2013 Mary Oliver \u2013 \u201cWage Peace\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wage peace with your breath.<br \/>\nBreathe in firemen and rubble,<br \/>\nbreathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.<br \/>\nBreathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children<br \/>\nand fresh mown fields.<br \/>\nBreathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.<br \/>\nBreathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.<br \/>\nWage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.<br \/>\nRemember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.<br \/>\nMake soup.<br \/>\nPlay music, learn the word for thank you in three languages.<br \/>\nLearn to knit, and make a hat.<br \/>\nThink of chaos as dancing raspberries,<br \/>\nimagine grief as the outbreath of beauty or the gesture of fish.<br \/>\nSwim for the other side.<br \/>\nWage peace.<br \/>\nNever has the world seemed so fresh and precious.<br \/>\nHave a cup of tea and rejoice.<br \/>\nAct as if armistice has already arrived.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t wait another minute.<\/p>\n<p>Advent Creche<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/Advent-Figurines.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-966\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/Advent-Figurines.jpg\" alt=\"Advent Figurines\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/Advent-Figurines.jpg 320w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/12\/Advent-Figurines-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advent Angel, Hummel; \u00a0Lakota medicine pouch, Don Montileaux; \u00a0Celtic cross, Waterford<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, \u00a0December 5 \u2013 \u00a0\u201cimagine grief as the outbreath of beauty\u201d November 29 was the anniversary of Bill Pauly\u2019s sudden death at 59, 2006, of a heart attack. \u00a0That year Bill played inside a lovely sabbatical after years of demanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/12\/05\/advent-monday-week-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}