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Poets & Saints

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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.

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S4 · E172
Yesterday · 5 min
The Greatest Wonder of All
Scripture John 1:14 (NIV) The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. Refrain The Word became flesh. This is the greatest wonder. Quote Brian Zahnd, from Unseen Existences "In that numinous moment I whispered a prayer: God, I want to spend the rest of my life in a constant state of wonder. What happened next was wholly unanticipated. A reply whispered back, This is the greatest wonder of all — the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E171
Thursday · 5 min
The Most Beautiful Thing
Scripture 1 Corinthians 15:51 (NIV) Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed. Refrain Mystery is where all knowing begins. Quote Albert Einstein "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E170
Wednesday · 5 min
To Cease to Wonder
Scripture Matthew 18:3 (NIV) And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Refrain I am learning to see like a child again. Quote George MacDonald "To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace — the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E169
Tuesday · 5 min
We Have Sinned and Grown Old
Scripture Lamentations 5:15–16 (NIV) Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! Refrain God has never grown tired of making the world. Quote G.K. Chesterton, from Orthodoxy "But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E168
Monday · 5 min
Wonder Is the Waymarker
Scripture Psalm 8:3–4 (NIV) When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? Refrain Wonder is the arrow pointing me home. Quote Brian Zahnd, from Unseen Existences "In the pilgrimage of the soul toward the homeland where we've never been, wonder is one of our most reliable way markers. True wonder is a bright flecha pointing the pilgrim toward heaven." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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August 21 · 5 min
Put Back On The Right Road
Scripture Revelation 21:2–4 (NRSVUE) And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away." Refrain No one is finally lost. The road leads home. Quote C.S. Lewis, from The Problem of Pain "I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists of being put back on the right road." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E166
August 20 · 5 min
Beings En Route
Scripture Philippians 3:20 (NIV) But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. Refrain I am not yet myself. I am becoming. Quote Pope Benedict XVI, from Introduction to Christianity "Human persons are beings en route, beings characterized by transition. They are not yet themselves; they must ultimately become themselves." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E165
August 19 · 5 min
I Have Come Home At Last
Scripture John 14:2–3 (NIV) My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. Refrain I press on — further up and further in. Quote C.S. Lewis, from The Last Battle "I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I've never seen it till now. The reason we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. Come further up, come further in!" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E164
August 18 · 5 min
An Animal En Route
Scripture Hebrews 11:13 (KJV) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Refrain I am an animal en route to another native land. Quote Gregory of Nazianzus, from an Easter Sermon "The great Architect of the universe conceived and produced a being endowed with both natures, visible and invisible. He created a being at once earthly and heavenly, insecure and immortal, visible and invisible, halfway between greatness and nothingness, flesh and spirit at the same time — an animal en route to another native land, and most mysterious of all, made to resemble God by simple submission to the divine will." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E163
August 17 · 5 min
Latent With Unseen Existences
Scripture 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV) So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Refrain I am latent with unseen existences. Quote Brian Zahnd, from Unseen Existences "Once we acknowledge the reality of a spiritual world, we can understand life as a pilgrimage of the soul toward our true telos — our true aim, our true goal, our true end: union with God." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E162
August 14 · 5 min
Love After Love
Scripture Song of Songs 2:4 (NIV) Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love. Refrain I welcome the stranger who is myself. Quote Derek Walcott, from Love After Love "The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Sit. Feast on your life." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E161
August 13 · 5 min
Reorder
Scripture Revelation 21:5 (NIV) He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true." Refrain What was broken has become the ground of something new. Quote Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov "Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E160
August 12 · 5 min
Simply That You Are
Scripture Exodus 3:14 (NIV) God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'" Refrain Simply that you are. Quote Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ "Anything is a sacrament if it serves as a shortcut to the Infinite, but it will always be hidden in something that is very finite." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E159
August 11 · 5 min
The Crack
Scripture Romans 8:18 (NIV) I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Refrain There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Quote C.S. Lewis, from The Problem of Pain "We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E158
August 10 · 5 min
Order
Scripture Genesis 1:31 (NIV) God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day. Refrain I am held in a world that was made for me. Quote Thomas Traherne, from Centuries of Meditations "You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never enjoy the world." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E157
August 7 · 5 min
Heaven Begins Now
Scripture 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV) And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is Spirit. Refrain Heaven begins now, in being fully seen. Quote Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ "Any loving gaze that we can dare to receive can start the Flow: creation itself, animals, humans — all are the divine gaze if we allow them to be. One day, the mirror will reflect in both directions, and we will see over there what was allowed in here. This is full-access seeing — and being seen: most have named it 'heaven' and it begins now. Let this Divine Mirror fully receive you. All of you. And you never need be lonely again." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E156
August 6 · 5 min
God's Eternal Contract
Scripture Psalm 139:1–4 (NIV) You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. Refrain God receives me fully. I am redeemed in being seen. Quote Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ "God is a mirror big enough to receive everything, and every single part of you, just as it is, rejecting nothing, adjusting nothing. Whatever is fully received in this Mirror is by that very fact 'redeemed.' God always sees and loves God in you. It seems like God has no choice. This is God's eternal and unilateral contract with the soul." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E155
August 5 · 5 min
We Only Know Ourselves in Another's Eyes
Scripture 1 John 4:16 (NIV) And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Refrain I am known in relationship and held in love. Quote Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ "If that mirror is withdrawn for any reason, it causes sadness, emptiness, or even anger. We are normally disoriented, even heartbroken for a while. We die in some way. But why? Because we only know ourselves in another's eyes. We receive our identity — all of it — good and bad, from another. The other both creates us and saves us. The universe is relational at every level, and even between levels. Relationship is the core and foundational shape of Reality." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E154
August 4 · 5 min
Coming to Life
Scripture Genesis 1:27 (NIV) So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Refrain In God's gaze, I come alive. Quote Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ "When we learn to love anyone or anything, it is because they have somehow, if just for a moment, mirrored us truthfully yet compassionately to ourselves. And we grab on to it! Why wouldn't we? In this resonance, we literally 'come to life.' But have no doubt, it is an allowing from our side. And such pure, unfiltered Presence is accessed only by presence in return. Nothing more is needed." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 · E153
August 3 · 5 min
A Mirror Simply Reveals
Scripture 1 Corinthians 13:12 (NIV) For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; we see only a part, but then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. Refrain God sees me clearly and loves what God sees. Quote Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ "A mirror receives and reflects back what it sees. It does not judge, adjust, or write commentary. We are the ones who do that. A mirror simply reveals. And invites responsibility. A mirror, the sun, and God are all the same. They are all there, fully shining forth. Their very nature is light, love, and infinite giving. You can't offend them or make them stop shining. You can only choose to stop receiving and enjoying. As soon as you look, you will see they are there. And fully radiating. And always have been." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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