“Whispered Prayer” Written and Produced by Christine McNeill-Matteson Music Written and Performed by Kip Haaheim Vocals by Katie Bieber Video Produced by Jon Matteson and Erin Schaut Directed, Shot, and Edited by Jon Matteson Starring Erin Schaut

( A Southern Remembrance )

It was a little church, brick layered from years.

creating a shelter for children to feel safe.

Singing gospels, ‘Jesus is calling’ 

and ‘amazing grace’, people stand in faith. 

Wooden pews curved into the backs tired

from laboring fields bent by the plow.

Promises coming from pulpits of well intending 

preachers who draw from biblical stories. 

Stories of trial and triumphs of ancient 

believers who strived and survived.  

Promises raining from a place called 

heaven, a place many were destined to soon go.

“Sweet hour of Prayer” they listened and sang.

holding on the pews as the children watched.

Yes, they would leave to go home to their 

Sunday dinner, knowing;

“In the sweet by-and-by.”

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Easter Sunrise

Pink moon descends

While Jesus’s resurrection begins .

A year of hardship

Around the world

The Wrong unfurls

May the message of love

As a sacrifice reigns

And we in follow, do the same .

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Happy Easter to all who celebrate . May the world find peace…

Quiet frost hangs from frigid night

spring tulips stand in defiance.

The beginning of the Triduum

in the path of history as

Easter is told.

Holy Week

Gray-streaked morning
pushing up a coral-rising dawn.

Our week of the holiest of holies
as the promise of mankind

now returns to renew the mystery.
Humanity looks to renewed hope.

the dawn of holy week peeks just above
the existence of creation.

Now two thousand years ago,
It has brought forward another Triduum.

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When the wind crossed over time

and the wood left stains behind

rumbling into all tomorrows

paradox of man and divine

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