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All death in #WAR = Loss, Failure Tragedy regardless of where, when, whom. Dealing w Facts is critical. Please #refrain from #hatespeech. #UN halved the number of female and under-18 Palestinian casualties in the Israel-Hamas war; earlier this month, UN Office Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stopped citing #statistics from Hamas-run Government Media Office in its updates. U.N. spokesperson blamed “the fog of war” for office’s previously #inaccurate counts. nationalpost.com/news/world/is

National Post | National PostThe United Nations (UN) significantly lowers its previously stated casualty list in the Gaza Strip,

today’s forecast called for snow,
a prediction indifferent
to the calendar’s early border for spring,
as well as to my own personal feelings on the matter.
winter has these silences,
hidden between the refrains
of wind pushing past pine, through buildings, rattling
windows and bones.

—from “[swan song]” by #KatelynGrimes, published in #CapsuleStories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation. Grab your paperback or ebook copy: capsulestories.com/winter-2022 #earlyspring #poem #poetry #refrain #silence #writing

“Hear God’s refrain: You are my beloved. It’s like the music of our lives, a refrain sung over and over, telling us who we are. Hear the constant refrain from your birth and from the beginning: You are my beloved. Feel yourself wrapped in love again and again. Then kneel in your heart and perhaps on your knees to confess sin, to turn and repent.”

#Beloved #Refrain #Repent #Confession #Jesus #Episcopal #Monastics #SSJE

ssje.org/2021/02/21/beloved-br

SSJEBeloved – Br. Luke Ditewig“More giving up, letting go, and self-denial, more awareness of need and sin, more repentance and vulnerability? Do we really need more Lent? The past year feels like a long Lent with so much loss …