By Cameron Bellm February 2, 2023 — Spirit & Verse is a monthly column of original poem-prayers composed by Cameron Bellm, a Seattle-based writer and mother of two whose “Prayer for a Pandemic” went viral, bringing solace and comfort to many struggling during COVID-19. A Prayer for the Bleak Midwinter This time of year, when every …
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Every family is a holy family, if you look closely enough, because every person bears the breath of God.
Spirit & Verse is a monthly column of original poem-prayers composed by Cameron Bellm, a Seattle-based writer and mother of two whose “Prayer for a Pandemic” went viral, bringing solace and comfort to many struggling during COVID-19.
When you feel ready, turn your eyes to the water and watch with God what the tide brings in as you look back together, lovingly, at your day.
Bring in your dead. Bring in your flattened. Bring in your hopeless cases and your lost causes.
These February days always give me pause—a slender sliver of ordinary time, suspended between Christmas and Lent.
January 21, 2022 — Spirit & Verse is a monthly column of original poem-prayers composed by Cameron Bellm, a Seattle-based writer and mother of two whose “Prayer for a Pandemic” went viral, bringing solace and comfort to many struggling during COVID-19. “A Prayer for Sunday of the Word of God” O Word that shapes our liturgies …
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This poem, along with other Ignatian prayers, poems, reflections and art, first appeared in our free e-book, “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: Through the Year with Ignatian Spirituality.”
A poem for Advent.
Spirit & Verse is a monthly column of original poem-prayers composed by Cameron Bellm, a Seattle-based writer and mother of two whose “Prayer for a Pandemic” went viral, bringing solace and comfort to many struggling during COVID-19.