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Poets & Saints is a five-minute liturgical meditation, hosted by Cody Jensen, blending breath, scripture, and sacred writings from mystics and poets. Created for spiritual seekers and believers alike, it offers a quiet invitation to slow down and encounter God in the present moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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- Today5 min
The Half Hour of Silence
ScriptureJohn 11:33-35 (NIV)When Jesus saw her weeping,and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping,he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled."Where have you laid him?" he asked."Come and see, Lord," they replied.Jesus wept.RefrainIn the silence, Jesus weeps with me.QuoteBrian Zahnd, from Unseen Existences"Yes, Jesus knew he was about to raise Lazarus,he knew it even before Lazarus died.Yet even knowing he would soon raise Lazarus,Jesus helped shoulder the burden of that bitter half hourwith Mary and Martha by grieving with them.During heaven's silence when it appears our prayers go unansweredand our grief unassuaged, Jesus weeps with us." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Yesterday5 min
He Whom You Love
ScriptureJohn 11:3, 5 (NIV)So the sisters sent word to Jesus,"Lord, the one you love is sick."Now Jesus loved Marthaand her sister and Lazarus.RefrainI am loved as a friend, and I am not alone.QuoteHenri Nouwen, from Out of Solitude"When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us,we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,have chosen rather to share our painand touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion,who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement,who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healingand face with us the reality of our powerlessness,that is a friend who cares." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 days ago5 min
Rain Upon the Blinding Dust
ScripturePsalm 84:5-7 (NIV)Blessed are those whose strength is in you,whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.As they pass through the Valley of Baka,they make it a place of springs;the autumn rains also cover it with pools.They go from strength to strength,till each appears before God in Zion.RefrainEven in the valley of weeping, there are springs.QuoteCharles Dickens, from Great Expectations"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears,for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth,overlying our hard hearts.I was better after I had cried, than before,more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude,more gentle." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 5 days ago5 min
We Dazzle Gradually
ScriptureProverbs 4:18 (NRSVUE)But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,which shines brighter and brighteruntil full day.RefrainI am being dazzled, gradually, into the light.QuoteBrian Zahnd, from Unseen Existences"I've been gradually dazzled by Christ into a much more hopeful and glorious theology. But along the way I've also learned that I have to tell it slant. I can't always expect someone to see in five minutes what it's taken me fifty years to see. In our pilgrim journey we need to be careful not to blind others with what we have seen. We dazzle... gradually." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 6 days ago5 min
Like a Time Bomb
ScriptureLuke 8:9–10 (NRSVUE)Then his disciples asked himwhat this parable meant.He said, "To you it has been givento know the secrets of the kingdom of God;but to others I speak in parables,so that 'looking they may not perceive,and hearing they may not understand.'"RefrainThe story is working in me before I understand it.QuoteEugene Peterson, from The Contemplative Pastor"Jesus' favorite speech form, the parable, was subversive. Parables sound absolutely ordinary: casual stories about soil and seeds, meals and coins and sheep, bandits and victims, farmers and merchants. And they are wholly secular. As people heard Jesus tell these stories, they saw at once that they weren't about God, so there was nothing in them threatening their own sovereignty. They relaxed their defenses. They walked away perplexed, wondering what they meant, the stories lodged in their imagination. And then, like a time bomb, they would explode in their unprotected hearts." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago5 min
From Milk to Solid Food
ScriptureHebrews 5:12–14 (NRSVUE)You need milk, not solid food;for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,is unskilled in the word of righteousness.But solid food is for the mature,for those whose faculties have been trained by practiceto distinguish good from evil.RefrainI am ready for what once would have overwhelmed me.QuoteSt. John of the Cross, from Dark Night of the Soul"The soul, after it has been definitely converted to the service of God, is, as a rule, spiritually nurtured and caressed by God, even as is the tender child by its loving mother, who warms it with the heat of her bosom and nurtures it with sweet milk and soft and pleasant food, and carries it and caresses it in her arms; but, as the child grows bigger, the mother gradually ceases caressing it, and, hiding her tender love, puts bitter aloes upon her sweet breast, sets down the child from her arms and makes it walk upon its feet, so that it may lose the habits of a child and betake itself to more important and substantial occupations." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago5 min
The Soul That Reaches Forward
ScripturePhilippians 3:13–14 (NRSVUE)Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own;but this one thing I do:forgetting what lies behindand straining forward to what lies ahead,I press on toward the goalfor the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.RefrainI am always being drawn further in.QuoteGregory of Nyssa, from The Life of Moses"Such an experience seems to me to belong to the soul which loves what is beautiful. Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. And the bold request which goes up the mountains of desire asks this: to enjoy the Beauty not in mirrors and reflections, but face to face." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago5 min
Tell It Slant
Scripture1 Corinthians 13:12 (NRSVUE)For now we see in a mirror, dimly,but then we will see face to face.Now I know only in part;then I will know fully,even as I have been fully known.RefrainThe truth dazzles gradually, so that I may see.QuoteEmily Dickinson, "Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant""Tell all the truth but tell it slant—Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind—" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Poets & Saints is a five-minute liturgical meditation, hosted by Cody Jensen, blending breath, scripture, and sacred writings from mystics and poets. Created for spiritual seekers and believers alike, it offers a quiet invitation to slow down and encounter God in the present moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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