After a crocuses/croci poem, we have a couple of "environment connected persons" that the church remembers on April 22, EarthDay - John Muir and Hudson Stuck.  Three poems - one by Toyohiko Kagawa, the collect for the Feast of St Mark, and one more for EarthDay.  You can sing To Dream The Impossible Dream with Frank Sinatra and some other folks, and watch the very first video posted to youtube.

For the Third Sunday of Easter, we hear part of Peter's sermon after he and John had healed a man.  We look at a psalm that sounds like the prayer of someone who is in distress.  There's a prayer that recognizes that while we may not be directly responsible for all the evil in the world, still we are complicit.  God forgives and makes possible a new start on a new life.  Listen through to the end for one writer's thoughts on how to read the scripture lessons in church.  Do you agree or disagree?  Why

We try to make up for missing the birthday of Twinkies last week by sharing a Twinkie haiku.  This week in the church calendar we hear about Father Damian and Sister Marianne who both worked with people suffering from leprosy on the island of Molokai.  Then a little bit about Clara Barton, George Friderick Handel, and Albert Einstein.  There's a link to Paul Simon singing Kodachrome.  As always if you are more into reading, this is available at wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com.

After a short prayer to remind us that Easter is not over, we look at the lessons for this Sunday.  During these weeks after Easter we read from Acts and 1 John.  Today we also have one of the shortest psalms - 133, and then the second resurrection appearance in the Gospel of John - first to ten of the disciples when Thomas was absent, then to all of them.  We come to faith in different ways, and Jesus ends by saying "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."  As always, if you want to read any of this, it is available at WordsTwiceaweek.blogspot.com.

We hear about a church leader in India and one who worked with Chinese immigrants in the San Francisco area.  And Merle Haggard.  And some about Pablo Picasso - he said The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away."   

There are a lot of scripture lessons a person might encounter over the Easter weekend.  In this episode we look at some of them usually read for the Easter morning service, including the resurrection stories from Mark and John.

We think a little bit about Holy Week traditions that have been meaningful to us.  We have a poem for Palm Sunday from John Keble, a couple of prayers for Good Friday, and the last words of Richard of Chichester and Robert Falcon Scott.  There are links to some music and pictures on the website - wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com.

In today’s podcast, Charlie West gives us some of his thoughts on Palm Sunday’s readings:, Psalm 118.1-2, 19-29,  Mark 11.1-11, Isaiah 50.4-9a, Phil 2.5-11 and Mark 14.1-15.47. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com

He also gives us a prayer:

In today’s podcast, Charlie West, shares some information from the church and world calendars including information about The Annunciation, Richard Allen, James Solomon Russell, Fannie Farmer and more. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com He also gives us a new challenge: write a poem that is a recipe for something called Moonlight Cake or Pudding!

In today’s podcast, Charlie West gives us some of his thoughts on Sunday’s readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34, Psalm 51:1-12, Hebrews 5:5-10 and John 12:20-33. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com He also gives us a prayer: