Tag Archives: Tom Bolton

Freedom

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Tom Bolton

I’m recalling this poem from February 2013. The poem was percolating in my mind for over a week, but the parts about the song in my youth just didn’t translate well in 2013. Sometimes, repentance is hardest when we are … Continue reading →

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A List for Maundy Thursday

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Tom Bolton

Again Maundy Thursday Playlist http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/04/05/maundy-thursday-last-supper-and-gethsemane (This is a link to a page from Sojourners.) This is a page from Sojourners in 2012. It includes a playlist of songs inspired by or that speak in some way to the Holy Week … Continue reading →

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Scourged to Heal

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Tom Bolton

Reading Isaiah 53:5           Scourged To Heal Near lictors, nauseated and sweating, we seek to know our ailing, to confess our place, and there to seek wellness. The scourge, so devious, so malevolent, made most evil by man, is laid … Continue reading →

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Thomas

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Tom Bolton

On Thomas in 2014 On John 14:2 Room Enough Like Thomas, I have searched the way, and I love this community, love this master. But these days, I am reminded: There is a place with many rooms, there is a … Continue reading →

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Approaching the Cross

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Tom Bolton

I am repeating some posts from 2013 this week: At the Cross In the deep dark early this morning, skies so black and veiled, we saw little clearly, and felt the dark fall on each of us. I was there … Continue reading →

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A Neighbor

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Tom Bolton

In March 2014, I was writing more regularly than I have this Spring, and it has been a different experience to return there as a visitor.                                 In Serving In the neighbor, new and newly embraced, He comes to me. … Continue reading →

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A Speck

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Tom Bolton

I wrote this in July 2013. What a Speck Today, I saw sinners everywhere I wandered— And I was out with a purpose!— And I was astounded, And I was thankful for who I am. On the bus early in … Continue reading →

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