Thank you so much for your participation in and contribution to this eCourse experience. We hope that the stories and essays over the last three weeks have deepened and expanded your commitment to Benedictine roots and renewal.
All the eCourse content will be available to you for the next six months, so feel free to go back to the posts you missed or read them again anew later this year. Keep the comments going as new insights or ideas emerge for you!
Here is a poem for Friday, April 30, the last day of National Poetry Month. Thank you so much for participating in this celebration. I had a good time and hope you did, too.
You remain with me
old wild goose, no matter where
you roam—same autumn night.
--Issa
Do you like this poem? Why or why not? How does it make you feel?
Prompt: Copy Issa’s first line—You remain with me—and see where it leads you
You remain with me: old photograph, favorite poem, dear friend, lost love, blue heron etc.
Contributor: Katie Gordon is a staff member with Monasteries of the Heart and a co-founder and national organizer of Nuns & Nones. She lives in Erie, PA with the Benedictine Sisters in a small sister community called the Pax Priory, a site of monastic tradition and experimentation.
