{"id":3204,"date":"2019-10-02T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2019-10-02T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:08:11","slug":"october-3-crying-out-for-a-vision-jim-janda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/10\/02\/october-3-crying-out-for-a-vision-jim-janda\/","title":{"rendered":"October 3  &#8211;  Crying out for a vision &#8211; Jim Janda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, Oct 3<\/p>\n<p>Coming home to Six Mile and Livernois after a month on Pine Ridge teaches me again about the energy of the university;\u00a0 campus is alive with the works of vision and daily challenges that emerge when faculty pay attention to students and students pay attention to faculty, with challenges that stretch the soul, when faculty stretch their own souls also.\u00a0 A strong university, any ordinary day, calls out hope and the courage hope requires.\u00a0\u00a0 On good days hope\u2019s laughter seems to show up everywhere, shows up in the pace of women and men on their ways all over campus, fresh and playful with the joy of this culture of shared discovery.\u00a0\u00a0 On hard days the pace slows.\u00a0 Standing tall and letting my shoulders straighten, being willing to expect surprises.<\/p>\n<p>These are the inner rhythms of which poet Jim Janda writes, of the many great poets whose work appears on this list, one of the most willing to cry for a vision with the knowledge that this is the sacred task of human beings.<\/p>\n<p>After a month on Pine Ridge to renew my imagination; life here on Six Mile, the pace of the mind\u2019s courage and the signs of kinship among women and men who risk hoping for a vision and a voice just knocks me over and straightens my step.\u00a0 Best to read the poem out loud, with pauses.\u00a0 Have a blest Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post:\u00a0\u00a0 Jim Janda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Many of Jesus&#8217; disciples who were listening said,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u201cThis saying is hard; who can accept it?\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/6:1\">Gospel<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crying for a Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To cry for a<br \/>\nvision<br \/>\nis a sacred<br \/>\ntask<\/p>\n<p>after hearing<br \/>\na holyman<\/p>\n<p>after taking<br \/>\na sweat bath<\/p>\n<p>with sage and<br \/>\nsweet grass<\/p>\n<p>one must climb a<br \/>\nmountain alone\u2014<\/p>\n<p>here a song<br \/>\nmay be heard<\/p>\n<p>here a vision<br \/>\nmay be given<\/p>\n<p>here a dance<br \/>\nmay be learned\u2014<\/p>\n<p>one must then<br \/>\nleave<br \/>\nthe mountain<\/p>\n<p>to sing the<br \/>\nsong<br \/>\nto live the<br \/>\nvision<br \/>\nto begin the<br \/>\ndance<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2018\/04\/Jim-Janda.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2664\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2018\/04\/Jim-Janda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim Janda\u00a0\u00a0 d. August, 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2019\/10\/Eagle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3205\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2019\/10\/Eagle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2019\/10\/Eagle.jpg 173w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2019\/10\/Eagle-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrying out for a vision\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, Oct 3 Coming home to Six Mile and Livernois after a month on Pine Ridge teaches me again about the energy of the university;\u00a0 campus is alive with the works of vision and daily challenges that emerge when faculty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/10\/02\/october-3-crying-out-for-a-vision-jim-janda\/\">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\/3204"}],"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=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}