I Shall Go Out in Joy

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

― Anne Lamott

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What is it about life

that makes us so serious?

what it is that grabs us

and squeezes the breath out of us

so that we can barely breathe,

barely move

what takes the smile from our soul

and leaves us dour and gray?

come O Sacred One come

fire and wind

burn and blow

stir the embers to life

that joy might burst forth

and I might sing

a redemption song

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You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12