<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" >

<channel><title><![CDATA[Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur - Readings]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings]]></link><description><![CDATA[Readings]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:10:06 -0800</pubDate><generator>Weebly</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Dilruba Ahmed - Phase One]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/dilruba-ahmed-phase-one]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/dilruba-ahmed-phase-one#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:33:13 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/dilruba-ahmed-phase-one</guid><description><![CDATA[&#8203;https://onbeing.org/programs/dilruba-ahmed-phase-one/ [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph"><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/dilruba-ahmed-phase-one/" target="_blank">&#8203;https://onbeing.org/programs/dilruba-ahmed-phase-one/</a></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/what-you-missed-that-day-you-were-absent-from-fourth-grade-by-brad-aaron-modlin]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/what-you-missed-that-day-you-were-absent-from-fourth-grade-by-brad-aaron-modlin#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 18:26:38 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/what-you-missed-that-day-you-were-absent-from-fourth-grade-by-brad-aaron-modlin</guid><description><![CDATA[&#8203;https://onbeing.org/poetry/what-you-missed-that-day-you-were-absent-from-fourth-grade/ [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph">&#8203;https://onbeing.org/poetry/what-you-missed-that-day-you-were-absent-from-fourth-grade/</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Bones by Maggie Smith]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/good-bones-by-maggie-smith]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/good-bones-by-maggie-smith#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 23:26:54 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/good-bones-by-maggie-smith</guid><description><![CDATA[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love Succeeding]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/love-succeeding]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/love-succeeding#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 22:43:31 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/love-succeeding</guid><description><![CDATA[By Li-Young Lee...and the child asleep beside him, its headon his right shoulder, is goldthe bees harvestto tip the scales weighing laughter and worry....&#8203;from The Undressing&#8203; 2018. [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph">By Li-Young Lee<br />...<br />and the child asleep beside him, its head<br />on his right shoulder, is gold<br />the bees harvest<br />to tip the scales weighing laughter and worry.<br />...<br /><em>&#8203;from The Undressing</em>&#8203; 2018.<br /><br /></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danielle Sered]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/danielle-sered-until-we-reckon-2019]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/danielle-sered-until-we-reckon-2019#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 13:54:29 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/danielle-sered-until-we-reckon-2019</guid><description><![CDATA[it is commonly understood that one of the effects of grief is that it can foreclose our ability to imagine.It is as though each of us can look only as far into the future as we can into the past.Healing, therefore, a process of dealing with what has happened, is at its heart a labor of forming a life-affirming relationship with what is to come.We wrest the future from the grip of the past.We look back so we can look ahead.We grieve so we can imagine.In that sense, this book is an invitation to g [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph"><strong>it is commonly understood that one of the effects of grief is that it can foreclose our ability to imagine.</strong><br />It is as though each of us can look only as far into the future as we can into the past.<br />Healing, therefore, a process of dealing with what has happened, is at its heart a labor of forming a life-affirming relationship with what is to come.<br />We wrest the future from the grip of the past.<br />We look back so we can look ahead.<br />We grieve so we can imagine.<br />In that sense, this book is an invitation to grief; it is also an invitation to imagination.<br />What is possible and what we deserve will almost surely require both. - From <em>Until We Reckon</em>, 2019</div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instructions on Not Giving Up, by Ada Limon]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/instructions-on-not-giving-up]]></link><comments><![CDATA[https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/instructions-on-not-giving-up#comments]]></comments><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:36:57 GMT</pubDate><category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.rebeccabijur.com/readings/instructions-on-not-giving-up</guid><description><![CDATA[poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving [...] ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="paragraph"><a href="https://poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving" target="_blank">poets.org/poem/instructions-not-giving</a></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>