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Down Under

Audio Recordings, Flight, Travel / tagged Faith, Reincarnation, Religion / December 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Flying toward the sunset
crossing the International date line
you do not exist on this earth for a day

You may be in heaven or hell
depending on who you are meeting there
and it may seem or be that you're there forever

Fortunately there are alternatives
plenty of religions believe in return tickets
and you may get to fly again into another sunrise

Sunday at Maria’s

Audio Recordings / tagged Church, Faith, Friendship, Mexican Food / December 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The kind of church
you only get in Austin

All the great gospel singing
without the sermon

And when you put your money
in the collection plate

You get back not only blessings

But also, a taco and a beer

In loving Memory of Loca Maria’s Taco Express – Another covid casualty – and of Patricia Fiske its greatest supporter.

Church Windows

Audio Recordings / tagged Faith, Fear, Religion / December 12, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Someone, I think it was Rilke, said
Religion is like a window
you can see God through it
but it keeps you from touching him

Summer job at sixteen
removing for re-leading
panels of old stained glass
from Moose Jaw's St. Andrews Church

Rickety extension ladder
up to a plank between the parapets
another ladder barely on it
and a long drop to the stone steps

Hands trembling, knees shaking
glad I was on the God side of the glass

Church Tour of Europe

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Faith / December 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Churches along the Rhine look down
in dark and somber judgement
on the towns below

In Milan the stone itself is full of light
its celebration lifting you up to God

The forefathers of all French waiters
built Notre Dame to their own glory

But I lit a candle there for Dan
and he got well

Masking up for Blaise Pascal

Audio Recordings / tagged Covid19, Faith / November 27, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

and for Brent Lane

There may or may not be a God
there may or may not be covid in the room
If you act as if there is a God or covid
and you are wrong there's very little lost

If you act as if there isn't and there is
you may end up going to a very bad place

Thank God

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, String Too Short To Save / tagged Faith, Hope / October 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No house
is too small for an alter
no person either

Graveside Comfort

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Faith / August 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Ashes to ashes dust to dust
murmur those words if you must
But it might be more comforting to say
that the potter of Adam still works in clay

Eulogy

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Death, Faith, Love / July 26, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My mother passes
from the womb of this life
to the new life of the next

It has been a difficult journey

My father is waiting for her
with two saddled horses

She is happy to see him
while still nervously scanning for Jesus
who she thought would be there to greet her

My father laughs

Plenty of time for that
in a place with no time

Let me help you up
onto this gentle roan
there's a sunset I'd like you to see

Foundation for Sainthood

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Faith, History / July 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Today marked by a family reunion
and a visit to the church in Elora, Ontario

Sunday Morning at the Ranch

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Faith, Music / June 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Too far to ride
tired horses to church
God's sun warm
on the kitchen's south wall
Guitar and fiddle
with harmonica offstage

Choir and congregation
on straw bale pews

Little brown jug
sounding like a hymn

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